Hi All, Here is the result of a silver strike being dipped in E-Z-Est for 24 hours! The strike is a 1997 Caesar's Palace Chariot. You can see from the scan that the "coloration" is quite different from the Venetian strike I won from their machine. This Venetian "anomaly" will remain a mystery and we'll see if others show up. I still believe it's possible that a Caesar's Pewter blank could have been used by mistake............Dick Maheu in New Mexico