Dipping is not cleaning?

RVDavis · June 5, 2006 5:14AM

<< <i>the point that a few of you continue to miss, & always have in other dip-thread, is that for those of us who like original coins, there's no choice. you can't take an original bust half w/ it's original patina, & dip the he11 out of it, & then it's blast white. takes a few seconds.

but you can't take a freakin blast-white bust half & suddenly make it original again. yet we continue to have butt-wipe "dealers" & "colletors" out there who JUST CAN'T ACCEPT a coin the way it looks the JUST GOTTA "IMPROVE" IT w/ a quick dip here, a quick dip there, here a dip there a dip everywhere a dip dip.

LEAVE THE COINS ALONE.

if you just gotta have that blast white look, fine. great! i'm all for you collecting what you like. buy 1 that's already dipped. don't dip a coin to make it blast white, buy 1 that's ALREADY blast white.

please

K S >>

I agree with you; I adore original coins and can't stand 'blast white' for a coin over 100 years of age.

Leevee · June 5, 2006 6:32AM

As a rookie I am not exactly sure what "dipping" is. From this post I have gathered that it is basically an acid wash to give old coins a like-new appearance. I myself would not be able to tell the difference so I may own a few of these already. I would prefer to own unaltered coins be it dipped, whizzed, toned, or otherwise. I think there should be a litmus test or something to determine whether anything unnatural has occured. Anyway, thats my 2 cents.

BTW does the salt and vinegar bath for dirty copper count as dipping? What is the approved method for cleaning dirty coins? I also do a little metal detecting and obviously most of the coins I find are not sparkling.

Thanks,
Leevee

Frankcoins · June 5, 2006 7:01AM

<< <i> DIPPING MOVES METAL, so even by your own def'n, dipping is doctoring.

>>

E-Z-est coin cleaner has a pH of 1.5. That's 3 times as acid as lemon juice, but only 1/3 as
acid as your stomach.

Dipping is not cleaning?

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