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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2464695, member: 112&quot;]That&#039;s kind of like saying surgery to remove a malignant tumor causes damage to the body. Sure, the body is cut (damaged) and part of the body may even be removed, again damage. But only under the most literal definition of the word. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can take a coin that has been toned very dark, sometimes even black, a coin that is butt ugly; dip that coin correctly and reveal a coin that still has booming mint luster and truly becomes a thing of beauty, worth multiples its previous value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would anybody in their right mind say that coin was damaged as a result it being dipped ? I rather think not. But if you wish to say it was - be my guest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dipping coins correctly has been accepted as not doing harm to a coin for longer than you and I together have been alive. In point of fact dipping coins correctly is and always has been viewed by the numismatic community as a whole as being beneficial to the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Evidence of this is legion. Well over 80% of all older coins that have been graded and slabbed by the TPGs have been dipped. This is a fact, not an opinion. What&#039;s more, it is, and always been, quite common for coins that have been previously graded and slabbed and then dipped correctly, to be given upgrades, sometimes huge upgrades. Sometimes directly causing these coins to increase in value exponentially. This is also a fact, not an opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given these things, saying or even implying that dipping a coin damages a coin, well, that just plain silly. </p><p><br /></p><p>May dipping a coin cause damage to the coin ? Yes, it absolutely may. But only when it is done incorrectly.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a huge difference between something that &quot;may&quot; cause damage, and something that &quot;does&quot; cause damage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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