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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Speedy, post: 102273, member: 705&quot;]First of all...let me make myself clear....dipping can hurt the coin....but let me make sure that everyone read CAN....</p><p>Sure...there are tests that can tell you...but how much would that test cost...and how much more damage would it do to the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think you are dead wrong.....but I can&#039;t change your mind.</p><p>The Experts don&#039;t just become an expert overnight....they are considdered an expert by many collectors because they have learned and study and searched out coins for years...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I can see the Gov dipping coins to make a fast buck...can&#039;t you??</p><p>The fact is that these coins were in canvas bags at the mint for years...either sitting on floors or such....now we know from re-search that people had bags of coins from the mint in the same time frame, when they opened their bags the coins were toned...sometimes dark...sometimes many colors....but being in bags isn&#039;t the best thing....now why in a blue moon would that NOT happen at the mint??...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I said that some of the Experts I&#039;ve read about this have been from Grading Co&#039;s....they see hundreds of thousand of coins a year...and that is still speculation???...that doesn&#039;t make &quot;cemts&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m going to leave with this.....</p><p>I know I&#039;m not going to change your mind...and your not going to change my mind...but facts are facts...we have both posted them...dipping can hurt the coin.</p><p>The things I have posted wern&#039;t &quot;thought up&quot; over night....I wasn&#039;t the one that first said it either....</p><p>I hope that anyone that reads this posts gets a mind full to think about...that is what I liked about this from from the first time I came...everyone posted what they thought....right or wrong...and why they thought that way....the readers could therefore read and pull the meat and leave the bones...its a great way to learn IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speedy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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