Unfortunate Death Sentence due to Improper Dipping...

[BROADSTRUCK]

Early Detection could have saved this White Coin!

 

To the novice collector this might look like a coin that has toning spots, however everything on this coin is dip residue that wasn't properly neutralized and has terminally turned in the slab. Remember anyone can dip a coin but the telltale signs if it was done properly won’t show themselves right away. The progression happens over a course of time after the coin was dipped, submitted for grading, or glanced at by a sticker outfit. So if you like albino coins just like being able to spot artificial toning you need to learn how to spot dip residue. The acidic dip solution starts to turn gold, then brown, and then spots occur which start as brown, turn blue, and finally black. Once bluish black it's cancerous like melanoma to the surface of the coin and although re-dipping in a diluted solution and properly neutralized may stabilize and lighten the spots it will not fully remove them. If noticed early enough in the gold to brown stages it can be removed with another diluted dip. If left it will etch the coin as the next stage is normally some bluish hues before it turns black and that's when it eats into the coins surface. Collectors worry about things like putty, but even decades later it's removed with acetone and this coin itself is unharmed. Dip residue is far nastier as seen below and since none of third party grading services any longer offer a warranty beyond being properly graded and genuine it’s up to you to inspect your coins regularly.

 

 

 

 

[BillJones]

One way to protect yourself is first learn how to spot dipped silver coins. Then avoid dipped silver coins that are housed newer slabs. A recently dipping coin in a new slab is a risky buy. You never know if it has been properly rinsed or not. Once it starts to change, you only defense is to send to a company like NCS as soon as possible. When a coin has not changed for several years, given proper storeage, it should not change a great deal for many years.

 

How do you spot dipped coins? Some of the signs are subtle, but easiest ones are based on logic. If you are dealing with something other than a Morgan dollar, and it is white or blast white, there is a very good chance that it has been dipped. If it's in a new slab, there is chance that is going to change color over the next couple of years.

 

Silver tarnishes over time. The process can be really slow with propler storage. Bear in mind, however that the chances of a 100+ year old coin staying as white as the day it was made are almost zero.

[RWB]

Sad.....One less nice coin for future collectors to enjoy.

[johnny9434]

a sad sight for sore eyes

[leeg]

Ouch.

[Kenneth F]

oh no!!

[A.Phillips]

That's definitely sucks....

[delta]

Can the identity of the dip solution be determined by just looking at that black spotting?

[Kurtdog]

Wow. I never dipped a coin so I'd never have known. Give this guy five days in the electric chair.

[e1cnr]

looks more like PVC attack to me