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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 26567726, member: 78298&quot;]Most of those very old coins which were in collections were routinely cleaned, as these collections were exhibited and the owners wanted them to shine, long before they realized t his was damaging the surface.</p><p>Coins that were not harshly cleaned will retone over time.</p><p>The problem I have with Morgans (any time I have been to a coin show, or looked at them in shops, or online) they all seem to be blast white, and I don&#039;t think a silver coin laying around for 100 years would retain that first day out of the mint luster, so I suspect they all have been dipped.</p><p>As for the coin in question, it&#039;s difficult to just leave a coin in a drawer for over a hundred years without being handled, before these coins were put into flips. So yes, it&#039;s going to be difficult to find one with natural surfaces.</p><p>I suspect someone saw this coin, and under the dirt and grime and patina they saw that there was a nice coin under there, and they doctored it to try to make it look and sell AU.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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