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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 1601299, member: 2972&quot;]See how the marks in your coin are grouped and in an aligned fashion?</p><p><br /></p><p>See how the marks on the &#039;56 are more random?</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason is your marks were made by a high speed wheel, they are aligned because the wheel on the dremel was aligned, but you can see where you moved your hand and the lines moved a bit too.&nbsp; The &#039;56 has a more random pattern because the nicks were a result of mishandling and/or circulation as opposed to a wire brush turning at 1000+ RPM.</p><p><br /></p><p>See how your coin has much of the detail on the coin &quot;flattened&quot; or &quot;melted&quot;?&nbsp; See how un-square the lettering, date, and edge of Liberty&#039;s portrait are?</p><p><br /></p><p>See how much of the fine detail on the &#039;56 remains?&nbsp; See how the edges are much sharper and the coin itself doesn&#039;t look &quot;melted&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s because you&#039;ve worn off a significant amount of metal with the dremel, and I would argue the dipping on the &#039;56 has not.&nbsp; Incidentally, that&#039;s why your coin doesn&#039;t show the &quot;halo&quot; typical of whizzed coins -- you&#039;ve completely obliterated that detail.</p><p><br /></p><p>The photos look similar, at first glance, but as you look deeper you can see the difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>Respectfully...Mike</p><p><br /></p><p>p.s. Is your after-dremeled photo color accurate?&nbsp; Because that doesn&#039;t -- at all -- look like the copper coins I&#039;ve stripped similarly -- they have a much more copper and much less brassy color.</p><p><br /></p><p>p.p.s. Dipping copper ABSOLUTELY DOES remove metal -- first off, the corrosion/toning is attached to metal and if it comes of so does the metal it is attached to, and, second, most dips are acid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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