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Burned Out MS-65 Morgan Dollar

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 Posted 05/11/2015  4:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It doesn't make 65 to me either.

I'm not willing to pronounce it "overdipped" right yet - overdipping sufficient to cause the granular effect on some of the coin would have completely stripped the luster long before. Instead, I think I'm seeing a curious effect of high-megapixel camera sensors on the look of a coin. I noticed it first with the 18MP T2i - it's as if there were sufficient pixels to capture each individual structure in the microscopic irregularity of the surface. I find it necessary to shoot RAW and remove chroma noise in post when shooting at that kind of pixel resolution. Between that and shooting through a slab, I can find most explanation for what the coin shows.
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 Posted 05/11/2015  5:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinCollector2012 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I do not think it is over dipped. With that being said, I do not think it deserves a 65. Looks more like a MS-64 to me.
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MS-64.
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I would think more like MS64 also.

Apart from that, is it possible to dip a coin to (say, remove blotchy toning), without affecting the luster in any way?
What are the characteristics of 'burning', associated with over dipping?

I have never been tempted to dip a coin with good luster, hence the questions.
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Thanks all. Looking at it again I can see where it is perhaps the photographer stripping the saturation out of the image.
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