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Posted 11/04/2021 6:32 pm
I would say leave it as is. It is easy to try and doctor a coin yourself, but there is a good chance it will be ruined. Usually the more I try to fix the appearance of something, it ends up messing up even more.
I had a dealer pull out a tray of Walking Liberty halves behind his case for me to look at, and there was a 1939 S in an AU slider grade with a small smudge on the reverse. As the dealer saw that, he went to the back, dipped the coin, and came back out with it. I was no longer interested in the coin, because it lacked originality. I would rather have a coin with an ugly toning smudge than a coin that is unnaturally bright white.
Dipping can't remove scratches, although toning can hide scratches. If you dip the coin and remove the toning, then you may find additional scratches on other parts of the coin.
I had a dealer pull out a tray of Walking Liberty halves behind his case for me to look at, and there was a 1939 S in an AU slider grade with a small smudge on the reverse. As the dealer saw that, he went to the back, dipped the coin, and came back out with it. I was no longer interested in the coin, because it lacked originality. I would rather have a coin with an ugly toning smudge than a coin that is unnaturally bright white.
Dipping can't remove scratches, although toning can hide scratches. If you dip the coin and remove the toning, then you may find additional scratches on other parts of the coin.
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more times than not, dipping a moderate to heavily toned coin is a bad idea, IMO. As stated, removing the toning can magnify what lies underneath. Also the length of time it takes to remove heavier toning will almost certainly kill the luster, and will make it obvious it was messed with. Only time I have dipped coins is if they are MS, and just have the lightest of haze, never in EZest more than 2 seconds. 
, wouldn't trust their judgment.
