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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ok, so here's the story. I bought a trio of coins from the Bay and I always look at a sellers other struff to see if I could use something else. I saw a listing for AU/BU lincolns, looked at the picture and put 'em in my cart. Skip ahead, I get the coins, they've obviously been dipped (sickly pink color) but parts of the coins have dark areas, especially around the edges and some on the obverses.
I went back to the listing, looked closer at the photos and sure enough, what I took for shadows were the dark parts of the coin and being photographed on a gold colored cloth, the coins did look good. What I hadn't noticed was the pic of the reverses which were totally unacceptable with runny dark parts.
My question is, after a coin is dipped, does it oxidize back to brown = and if so, how long does that take - or was whoever dipped them in the first place not only dishonest but also a lousy dipper. They were good AU details coins!! Why would somebody dip them?
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Rest in Peace
United States
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IMHO, No one should dip or harshly clean a COPPER coin. now for those cents to return to their original brown ; I really don't think so unless you feel like waiting about 40 years after it's sitting on a window sill soaking up the sun.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I'm going to send them back into the wild with my next return of Zincolns and let somebody else have the fun of trying to figure out the story behind them. They might also turn up on this forum again, which would be interesting. Yet another dealer on my s*** list.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Too bad. If only there was a way to prevent people from accidentally ruining their coins...
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Moderator
 United States
56855 Posts |
I think you can retone the coin back to brownish with a special chemical dip or use a Taco Bell brown napkin.But it will forevermore be a dipped/cleaned coin. John1  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
No way to get copper back to original after a harsh chemical dip. The colors will always be "wrong".
This forum probably helps keep some folks from ruining more coins as everyone always advises against cleaning or dipping (with the exception of some acetone baths).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would think that after dipping just ONE, you'd see that sickly salmon (sorry salmon) pink and think, "Well that was stupid, I better not do that again!". But there were six in the lot I bought. To make it worse, the rat-  s do it to perfectly good, full detail copper coins! And where do they buy the jewelry cleaner that's used for dipping? The major coin supply stores, like Wizard, Jakes, et al. Ok, rant over. Thanks for the letting me vent. |
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United States
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If the description didn't say dipped/cleaned contact the seller about the issue, if they don't want to make it right leave negative feedback and open a dispute with ebay. I've bought several items off ebay that weren't what they were described or had major details missing in the description and I think I've always won the dispute. I've never had a dispute on a coin, but have had on multiple other items. |
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Posted 11/25/2015 07:32 am
