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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3246905, member: 112&quot;]Well, kinda, but not really. Here&#039;s the thing. You are correct that coin dip is most generally reserved for use on AU and MS coins. And while there may be some contaminants that coin dip could remove because of its acid nature that the other 3 cannot, I am not specifically aware of any. So it&#039;s gonna be a pretty rare case where you use coin dip to remove contaminants.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, coin dip still serves a valid purpose for use on circulated, ever well circulated coins. That&#039;s because people tend to forget that toning, in its advanced stages, is destructive. In other words it will destroy the coin. So even when a coin is circulated, if it has advanced toning, it can be and often is advantageous to dip that coin in order to preserve it, to save it from certain destruction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now granted with most very common coins nobody is going to bother doing this. Two reasons, primary is it&#039;s too easy to just buy another without the problem. And secondary is because it makes circulated coins look weird, unnatural, and few like coins when they look unnatural. But if the coin is of some significance because of scarcity, or variety, or whatever, well then yes dipping it may be advantageous.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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