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LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes 07-10-2009, 09:51 AM   #1 (permalink) kanga 50 Years and Still At It     Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,588 My Mood: Any Hope for This Coin? In most respects this coin is AU, maybe even MS. BUT Well, the "BUT" is obvious. If it were your coin what would you do? My current opinion is sell it for whatever I can get and buy a replacement. __________________ ANA Member APS Member ARA Member There are 10 types of people: those that understand binary, and those that don't.   07-10-2009, 10:42 AM   #2 (permalink) mark_h Numismatist     Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 6,186 Knowing you and your tastes - I would say sell. Me I have a low grade album I could stick it in. The color just seems off to me. __________________ the other mark Best Baan Community Empty airtite seeks unwanted coins. All sizes welcome.   07-10-2009, 10:49 AM   #3 (permalink) kanga 50 Years and Still At It     Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,588 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by mark_h Knowing you and your tastes - I would say sell. Me I have a low grade album I could stick it in. The color just seems off to me. I'd hope to get XF money for it (that may be wishful thinking). As to the color, this image was done with a scanner rather than a camera. That could(?) account for that. I'd have to dig the coin out and take a look. __________________ ANA Member APS Member ARA Member There are 10 types of people: those that understand binary, and those that don't.   07-10-2009, 10:59 AM   #4 (permalink) mrbrklyn CEO of Brooklyn     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,092 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 Quote: Originally Posted by kanga In most respects this coin is AU, maybe even MS. BUT Well, the "BUT" is obvious. If it were your coin what would you do? My current opinion is sell it for whatever I can get and buy a replacement. It is hopeless. Drop in Nitric Acid and enjoy the nice blue colored solution that will result __________________ "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." Coin Talk Museum Exhibits http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins.html   07-10-2009, 11:03 AM   #5 (permalink) kanga 50 Years and Still At It     Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,588 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by mrbrklyn It is hopeless. Drop in Nitric Acid and enjoy the nice blue colored solution that will result As I recall, if I were to drop it in concentrated nitric acid I'd get a really neat brown gas (which I believe is toxic). __________________ ANA Member APS Member ARA Member There are 10 types of people: those that understand binary, and those that don't.   07-10-2009, 12:06 PM   #6 (permalink) HandsomeToad Urinist     Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas Posts: 6,572 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by kanga As I recall, if I were to drop it in concentrated nitric acid I'd get a really neat brown gas (which I believe is toxic). I believe the brown gas comes from dropping copper coated zinc pennies in the acid and the zinc is causing the brown gas. But I could be wrong. Ribbit   07-10-2009, 12:14 PM   #7 (permalink) kanga 50 Years and Still At It     Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,588 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by HandsomeToad I believe the brown gas comes from dropping copper coated zinc pennies in the acid and the zinc is causing the brown gas. But I could be wrong. Ribbit Since I took chemistry in 1959, there were no zinc cents (except the '43). __________________ ANA Member APS Member ARA Member There are 10 types of people: those that understand binary, and those that don't.   07-10-2009, 02:54 PM   #8 (permalink) HandsomeToad Urinist     Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas Posts: 6,572 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by kanga Since I took chemistry in 1959, there were no zinc cents (except the '43). And they were zinc coated steel cents, at that. Ribbit   07-10-2009, 12:15 PM   #9 (permalink) mrbrklyn CEO of Brooklyn     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,092 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 Quote: Originally Posted by kanga As I recall, if I were to drop it in concentrated nitric acid I'd get a really neat brown gas (which I believe is toxic). We teach qualitation analysis in Chemistry with US Pennies and I've not seen a brown gas. After putting it in acid you do a spectroanalysis and figure out the contents of the coin which is listed in the government registries. Ruben __________________ "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." Coin Talk Museum Exhibits http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins.html   07-10-2009, 12:19 PM   #10 (permalink) kanga 50 Years and Still At It     Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,588 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by mrbrklyn We teach qualitation analysis in Chemistry with US Pennies and I've not seen a brown gas. After putting it in acid you do a spectroanalysis and figure out the contents of the coin which is listed in the government registries. Ruben I Googled it and came up with this: http://www.chem.umn.edu/services/lec...Acid_Rain.html They label it a red-brown gas. There's another post on CoinTalk where there were several comments about how threads have a life of their own. They go off on tangents. This all started with me asking if the cent was recoverable, and we ended up in the chemistry lab. But we learn stuff that way. I don't mind as long as the original intent was satisfied. And it was in this case. __________________ ANA Member APS Member ARA Member There are 10 types of people: those that understand binary, and those that don't. Last edited by kanga; 07-10-2009 at 12:25 PM.   07-10-2009, 12:36 PM   #11 (permalink) mrbrklyn CEO of Brooklyn     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,092 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 Quote: Originally Posted by kanga I Googled it and came up with this: http://www.chem.umn.edu/services/lec...Acid_Rain.html They label it a red-brown gas. There's another post on CoinTalk where there were several comments about how threads have a life of their own. They go off on tangents. This all started with me asking if the cent was recoverable, and we ended up in the chemistry lab. But we learn stuff that way. I don't mind as long as the original intent was satisfied. And it was in this case. Well, there is also the possibility of using ajax and steel wool __________________ "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." Coin Talk Museum Exhibits http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins.html   07-10-2009, 02:29 PM   #12 (permalink) mark_h Numismatist     Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 6,186 I personally do not see why you would not get XF money for this coin. __________________ the other mark Best Baan Community Empty airtite seeks unwanted coins. All sizes welcome.   Bookmarks Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google Would you like to support CoinTalk? Coin Talk Code of Honor 1. Post unto others as you would have them post unto you. 2. Keep it clean, like a 1950s family television show. 3. 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