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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 26572564, member: 104064&quot;]I don&#039;t have much experience judging &quot;original&quot; versus dipped coins. I will say that I don&#039;t ascribe to the notion I&#039;ve seen people post, that any coin more than X years old that isn&#039;t toned is not &quot;original.&quot; It all depends on how they were stored and their overall environment. I have silver coins in 2x2s for over 50 years, which were raw before that for another 30+ years, that I know never had anything done to them but show no toning at all. So I&#039;d say Barbers versus Seated Dimes might have more to do with how storage methods changed over the years than a tendency for one series to have been chemically treated more than another. I&#039;m thinking of how much coal was burned for heat and industry, sulfur content in coin envelopes, etc and how that progressed over the years. Maybe those are factors too?</p><p><br /></p><p>Where to look for residual black specks? I had not heard of this before. It seems like the places where &quot;terminal toning&quot; begins is also the same places where it would remain after chemical treatment. Here&#039;s an NGC AU55 from my collection. You don&#039;t need 20x to see the black stuff in the crevices. Does it mean that the coin is not original? Or is it just where that stuff starts to form anyway? I don&#039;t know. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1693152[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the only &quot;gem&quot; (MS65 CAC) coin I have. I would say that it&#039;s original. But I&#039;m not sure if there&#039;s a particular &quot;look&quot; that is definitive. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1693153[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have others that it seems to me are original (could be wrong) but have a golden hue mixed with other rainbow colors, likely from album toning. But would someone say these were dipped and then retoned? How do you tell?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1693154[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s a couple proofs more along the lines of &quot;terminal&quot; toning I suppose. Quite dark and yet &quot;shiny.&quot; (PR63 and PR64)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1693156[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1693157[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting topic for sure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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