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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1753633, member: 112"]You'd want to do it long before "right before" because toning in its later stages is already eating away at the luster. But yes, there are certainly coins that have been dipped more than once.   Absolutely. But there's a bit more to it than that. You see there are many different types and stages of toning. And for a while, the toning in and of itself also helps to protect the coin from additional toning, especially if the coin is being stored under better conditions.   There's something that most folks don't realize. That is  - what they think is blast white, isn't blast white. That's because toning literally begins after the very moment the coin is struck. Depending on conditions of course, for quite a while you wouldn't even notice the toning. But the coin would be changing color (toning) all along. But it happens so gradually that you can't see it, or perhaps it would be better to say you don't notice it happening. But it is happening, that is a certainty. It's kind of like going to the paint store and telling the guy at the counter that you want some white paint. The first words out if his mouth are going to be - what color white ? We have about 100 different colors of white. Let me show you an example. Would you say this coin is white ? [ATTACH=full]276213[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]276215[/ATTACH] It isn't, and it looked much whiter in hand than it does in those pictures. And had great luster. So was it dipped ? In all probability it likely was at some point in its life. But that's the thing about dipping. If it is done correctly then nobody, and I mean nobody, can say with certainty that it was - except the person that did the dipping. But, anybody that knows coins can reasonably assume that it was dipped.    Maybe, but that's a big maybe, and most of the time I'd say flat out, no. And the decision to dip the coin should only be made by those with the necessary experience to make that judgement. And the dipping itself, once the decision is made, should only be done by those with the necessary experience to do it. And quite frankly, there aren't a whole lot of people that have those two things. What you as a collector have to remember is what I said before in this thread, and in many other threads, if you store the coin correctly you will never have to worry about it in your lifetime. About the only exception to that would be if you bought a coin that needed to be dipped before you ever bought it. And if it needed dipped before you bought it, then you shouldn't be buying it in the first place.[/QUOTE]

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