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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 5369385, member: 101855"]It sounds like you are confusing dipping with cleaning, and it's not the same thing. A cleaned coin has had medal moved around and might be hairlined or polished. A dipped coin has had tarnished metal removed by dipping in a mild acid. As long as the dipping has been done too often or for too long, it's acceptable to the general market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some collectors reject all dipped coins, and that's their decision. What a lot of them don't understand is that some of the "original coins" they are buying have been dipped and re-toned usually on their own.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most every early coin has been worked on at one time or another. If you rejected all of the pieces that have ever had anything done to them, there would not be much left to collect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 5369385, member: 101855"]It sounds like you are confusing dipping with cleaning, and it's not the same thing. A cleaned coin has had medal moved around and might be hairlined or polished. A dipped coin has had tarnished metal removed by dipping in a mild acid. As long as the dipping has been done too often or for too long, it's acceptable to the general market. Some collectors reject all dipped coins, and that's their decision. What a lot of them don't understand is that some of the "original coins" they are buying have been dipped and re-toned usually on their own. Most every early coin has been worked on at one time or another. If you rejected all of the pieces that have ever had anything done to them, there would not be much left to collect.[/QUOTE]
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