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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WillGK, post: 5530446, member: 115517&quot;]Yeah, times change. And I think you’re right, what I am looking at wouldn’t effect the grade.&nbsp; TPGs see these things all day long and can tell what the coin is.&nbsp; I never was much into dipping coins, even back when shiny was popular.&nbsp; No need, as sellers did it before I ever bought them, grin.</p><p><br /></p><p>And BTW how come none of my coins aged with grace (unlike me, lol).&nbsp; I put these coins away over 40 years ago.&nbsp; I stored them either in 2x2 flips, hard 2x2 plastic, or plastic tubes. In the Midwest. After all this time there is not a one(!!) that developed anything resembling the attractive toning that I see on web sites.&nbsp; My coins are either basically unchanged.&nbsp; Or a few have gotten spots or streaks.&nbsp; Or they just got uniformly blah like the one I pictured. The nicely toned coins that I have were toned when I got them and haven’t changed much, if memory serves.&nbsp; My experience makes me wonder if there are more artificially toned coins out there than people realize.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got some better lighting conditions last night, so I got a better picture of what I’m talking about.&nbsp; This coin has clean surfaces and nice underlying luster.&nbsp; But it has a look as though it was sitting out and got a light layer of dust over it.&nbsp; Totally uniform, lifeless.&nbsp; But I guess that it’s better than black and butt ugly, Randy, and butt ugly sells.&nbsp; I suppose I will just ignore the Tomaska comment and send these coins in, as is, and take whatever it is that the market gives me.&nbsp; Incidentally, this is what a coin can look like, that has been sitting for 40+ years in a tube of BU coins and was probably put away shiny. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1240697[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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