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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 22481763, member: 112"]You need to read the article again. The coin you pictured above with the splotchy toning - that is/was not the example that sold for $2 million, but a completely different coin. The coin you pictured above, before it was dipped, sold for $357,500, after it was dipped it sold for $546,250. "At one time, another 1893-S Morgan dollar known as the Norweb example was considered a peer. It realized $357,500 at the Bowers and Merena 1988 auction of the Norweb Collection, Part III. It was subsequently “dipped” and was sold in a Numismatic Guaranty Corp. MS-67 slab at a 2011 Heritage auction for $546,250 "  edit - My point is this, even though this is what was said about it - " Of that coin, Heritage wrote in 2011, “This piece has brilliant surfaces throughout, unlike its 1988 appearance in the Norweb sale, indicating that the coin has been conserved since that time.” As Legend observed, “the originality of the coin has been lost.” " The coin still sold for more after it was dipped.[/QUOTE]