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Valued Member
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Over my life, I've bought lots of coins either on ebay, or tv, or wherever and just put them away to someday go thru. Well, I'm retired now and starting to go through them, and learn about them. I've heard the term dipped but didn't really know what that meant. Tonight I opened a bag of coins, that I bought as a supposed BU set to fill an album, which they included, but the coins were in a bag. As I lay them out, they seem to have luster, but as I look closer, the features aren't very sharp, they seem dull. Are these what they refer to as dipped?      |
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks Silvercents, that's not what I thought dipping was. I thought it meant re-dipping in a similar metal surface solution, to plate it with a like new surface, which would fill in the details, like what I thought happened here.
Thanks for the educational information.
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Pillar of the Community
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I understand your mistake, I actually also thought that's what it meant, but no, it's just basically cleaning them.
No problem, keep asking questions!
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Pillar of the Community
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Your cents look good and natural to me..(not re-dipped)
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Pillar of the Community
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They look original to me, too!
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Pillar of the Community
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And sometimes oxidation can diminish the original mint surfaces.
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We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow.
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Bedrock of the Community
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From what I can see (we cannot see close-up the coins on the yellow-greenish towel, they are too small), but your 1966, it does not look dipped or cleaned, but it does have a big fingerprint on it. Cleaning coins even slightly can be seen as tiny scratches over the surface of coins, scratches that will never go away.
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Pillar of the Community
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They look pretty good to me overall as well. Some have toned a bit but everything looks natural.
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I have only heard of the term "dipping" applied to silver coins. Can someone instruct me if it is a thing for copper coins too? Hopefully not derailing this thread...
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Rest in Peace
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Your Lincoln Cents are not dipped . They have just toned down do to storage in a bag and environment of where the bag was stored . Spence , there is a dip for copper Cents but I have never used it . Call me MR. Natural .  |
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Ok good to know. Thx @tbop!
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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The luster on the 1966 coin you posted looks very original.
Dan
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