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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rhoggman, post: 387819, member: 13987&quot;]I alwyas hear people talking about how dipping coins will get you in a body bag, but if you read carefully into the standards having a &quot;improperly dipped&quot; coin will get you in a body bag, but having a &quot;dipped coin&quot; will not.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What gets people with dipped coins is returned in a body bag is dip residue. Washing the coin off with a nuetral solution is reccomended after dipping to avoid this. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also, you constantly here people talk about how &quot;dipping&quot; coins removes metal from the coin&#039;s surface. While this is true, it took an exremely powerful microscope, and a coin that had been dipped over and over again to prove this. Usually dipping coins in reccomended solutions only removes the patina, and if any metal is removed it is extremely limited, and usually cannot be detected. On the other hand dipping may be obvious for a number of other reasons than actual damage being done to the coin. Just because a coin looks worse does not mean it has been damaged. It could be that dipping has merely exposed preexisting weaknesses. Also, dipping residue stains can be removed. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Of course I really don&#039;t have experience with this, and therefore that is why I asked the question. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>NGC has a nograde.pdf you can download. It explains exactly what gets you a body bag.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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