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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1972025, member: 112&quot;]I think you&#039;re a bit confused. Toning is not caused by cleaning. Typically, cleaning (which is what dipping is) removes toning from a coin - it doesn&#039;t put it on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your real question is how to tell artificial toning from natural toning. Well, the simple answer is, sometimes you can&#039;t and sometimes you can. If artificial toning is done correctly, and much of it is, nobody not even the foremost expert in the world can tell it is artificial toning. </p><p><br /></p><p>But if artificial toning is done incorrectly then yes it can sometimes be identified as such. But getting to the point where you can do that is a matter of experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>And perhaps you have two questions here really with the second being how do you identify a coin that has been harshly cleaned ? That too is a matter of experience because there are many, many, different forms of harsh cleaning and they don&#039;t all look the same. Correctly identifying if a coin has been harshly cleaned is one the hardest things there is to learn in this hobby. And it usually requires a great deal of experience. Sometimes even people who have spent their whole lives in the hobby are fooled by it, or miss it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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