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Message:: [QUOTE="eddiespin, post: 2280751, member: 4920"]Doug, "educated to the fact that it has always has been acceptable?" Seriously, think about that. First off, who dipped these coins? No collectors I knew dipped coins. Dealers dipped these coins. If it was so "acceptable," why didn't it say in the Red Books back then how to dip these coins? The reason is a dipped coin is like a finished and stained antique drawer. Cut the value of it in half. It's a goner. No "educated" antique collector is going to accept that. Only a dope is going to accept it. We accept dipped coins by default. The dealers ruined these coins, and we have no choice but to accept them. The same is true with the TPGs, they're in the same spot. Either that, or probably 90% of blast white Morgan Dollars don't play in this "market grading" game with collectors. There's how I see it. With all due respect, I think you're backpedalling into a comfort zone. We weren't comfortable with dipped coins anymore than antique collectors were comfortable with "restored" antiques. We wanted to see the "age" in these coins, if it was there. We had a word for that, it was "original." At this point, I don't need to hear from the chemistry PhDs that sulfuric acid and thiourea is "safe" for silver coins, anymore than I need to hear from the wood refinishers that fine-grit sandpaper and conditioner is safe for antique wood furniture. That's treated antique wood furniture, and those are treated silver coins. No "educated" collector collects those, except by default. Finally, supposing 90% of Morgan Dollars were silver polished by dealers back then. We'd be collecting those, today, too, by default, and not because we're educated to the fact that the practice has always been deemed acceptable. Rather, because we're uneducated. Better still, because we have no choice. And, there's "market grading," in a nut... [/QUOTE]

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