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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2703504, member: 112&quot;]And I&#039;m not disputing that. But you aren&#039;t giving &quot;the rest of the story&quot;. You know as well as I do that toning, all by itself, not only reduces luster but also destroys it, progressively over time. So in that regard toning is just as bad as a dip is.</p><p><br /></p><p>In point of fact once a coin begins to tone, (and all coins begin toning the very moment after they are minted) the luster of that coin is being gradually reduced - by that toning. And if allowed to progress unchecked that toning will eventually destroy any all luster that the coin ever had.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your comment that - <i>&quot;An old silver coin (I&#039;m talking 1700s and early 1800s) with original surfaces will ALWAYS lose some of it&#039;s oxidized original lustrous surfaces when using a silver dip.&quot;</i> - is 100% correct. But <u>what you are not saying</u> is that those original lustrous surfaces (those that existed when the coin was minted) have already been lessened, and sometimes considerably so, by the toning itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, it is also true that a toned coin, if dipped correctly, will have its visible luster increased, and sometimes greatly increased, as a result of it being dipped. This is true because toning by its very nature, thin film interference, reduces the amount of luster that can be seen. </p><p><br /></p><p>The point is that dipping is not always a bad thing. To the contrary, sometimes dipping can be a very good thing. </p><p><br /></p><p>And don&#039;t get me wrong, I like original coins every bit as much as you do. I love an attractively toned coin ! But it is just flat out wrong to portray dipping as being wrong, bad, or detrimental, for that is simply not the case a all. Sometimes dipping can have a very positive effect on a coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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