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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1145847, member: 112&quot;]In order to understand what dipping does to a coin you really need to see it with your own eyes. The same thing goes for understanding what &quot;blast white&quot; looks like. I would venture that probably 90% of the coins that people say are blast white, are not blast white. That of course is with the inderstanding that blast white is what a freshly minted coin looks like. But it&#039;s really easy to understand if you just do a few simple experiments. Do them with coins that have no real value though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take almost any new coin you want, a dime or a quarter say, one that you get in change. Many of these coins are going to be MS - they do not show any wear in other words. Most folks would immediately say that the coin was blast white.</p><p><br /></p><p>Go to the drug store and buy yourself a bottle of TarnX, it&#039;s only a couple dollars. Now take that blast white coin and dip just half of into the Tarnx. Then rinse under running water. Now look at the coin. You will immediately see that the half you dipped is a different color than the half you did not dip.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin may only be a month old, and it&#039;s a clad coin at that. But in that month the coin has toned. But to you it didn&#039;t look toned at all. You can only see the extent of the toning by doing the experiment I described. That&#039;s the problem with blast white, or rather what people call blast white. Yes, the coin looks untoned and thus blast white, but it is toned. It is just so slightly toned that you can&#039;t see it. This is even more evident with copper coins. That cent may look completely untoned to you, but dip half of it and you will see just how toned it really is.</p><p><br /></p><p>So even those Morgan dollars from those original mint bags, the ones people think are blast white - are not blast white. Blast white is the name of a color used by almost everyone to describe what a freshly minted coin looks like. The problem is, the color they are describing is anything BUT blast white. It is in reality merely one of many varying shades of grey. It is the color of a toned coin - but most don&#039;t realize it is toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins, any coins and all coins, begin to tone the instant after they are struck. It is the nature of metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit - </p><p><br /></p><p>Now as to the luster issue. These coins your experiment with, look at the dipped half and the undipped half and compare the luster. If you only dipped the coin for 1 second all toning will be stripped away. But when looking at the coin you will see no difference in the luster. The difference is there, you just can&#039;t see it with the naked eye because it is so slight.</p><p><br /></p><p>But hold that coin in the TarnX for 5 seconds and then remove it. Now you will see a difference in luster between the two halves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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