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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gbroke, post: 1916671, member: 22585&quot;]Agreed, the cartwheel luster, or lack thereof, is the first thing to look at.</p><p><br /></p><p>A cleaning will generally leave hairlines and other artifacts like others mentioned.</p><p>However, over-dipping will not. </p><p>Dipping eats away at the top layer (luster). So if the coin had a carbon spot or other dirt issues, the dipping will remove the spots along with the luster. This leaves you with areas where the luster breaks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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