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<p>[QUOTE="Cloudsweeper99, post: 515823, member: 3011"]About a year ago I acquired three common date Morgan dollars at a coin show that had been dipped so they were white. All are about EF. Don't worry, I paid a dipped price. I put two of them into two empty wooden cigar boxes and the third into an empty matchbox so they could "naturally retone" to see how they would come out, hopefully with some good looking and maybe surprising coloration. About every three months I would flip them over to try to even out the toning effects.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm just reporting that all three are as white as the day I put them in.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Not a hint of toning. They might as well have been in airtites.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess I'll continue the experiment for another year without changing anything or adding anything to "cheat" and see what happens, but this surprised me. I thought a year might be enough to get some results.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cloudsweeper99, post: 515823, member: 3011"]About a year ago I acquired three common date Morgan dollars at a coin show that had been dipped so they were white. All are about EF. Don't worry, I paid a dipped price. I put two of them into two empty wooden cigar boxes and the third into an empty matchbox so they could "naturally retone" to see how they would come out, hopefully with some good looking and maybe surprising coloration. About every three months I would flip them over to try to even out the toning effects. I'm just reporting that all three are as white as the day I put them in.:confused: Not a hint of toning. They might as well have been in airtites. I guess I'll continue the experiment for another year without changing anything or adding anything to "cheat" and see what happens, but this surprised me. I thought a year might be enough to get some results.[/QUOTE]
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