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This is an AMAZING urban legend that continues to live on based on that one nutty guy years ago

 

I remember the ANA had plans around 1973
to sell some coating that would keep coins from
toning but it was a petro chemical and the idea
fell apart with the oil embargo.

 

Oil embargo, this sounds like another Urban Legend

 

everything is a petro chemical - really. If it was dropped it wasn't because of a lack of oil.

 

Thanks, but I'll continue to use gloves when I work with concentrated sulfuric acid (or if I ever again work with concentrated nitric acid). I can personally attest that, no matter how fast you rinse either of these off, it's not fast enough.

I also don't think the "manual dexterity" argument gets much traction in microbiology or pathology labs. Or, for that matter, in operating rooms -- where, I would argue, manual dexterity is much more important.

If you carefully wash and rinse your hands, you'll get rid of gross contamination, and remove some (but not all) skin oils -- but then your hands will immediately start exuding more oil, salt water, and other chemicals.

Now, is the risk of damaging coins with these substances less than the risk of damage from glove-induced clumsiness? Probably, especially since cotton gloves interfere more than the skin-tight, non-slip gloves used in labs or surgery.

 

This is also how I verify the weight of gold coins in capsules.

1) Pop the lid off the capsule.
2) Put the lid on the scale, and tare it.
3) Put the lid back on loosely, flip the capsule, and remove the bottom.
4) Weigh the lid and coin, with the lid tared out.

Presto -- an accurate weight for the coin, with no physical contact from anything but the capsule interior.

 

I hate arm chair analysis like this? What the heck does an operating room theater, or handling corresive Nitric Acid have anything to do with handling proof coins?

NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING...zero ziltch. You use a pot holder when you stick your hand in the oven, right?

Coins are not sterile.

 

Could be. But it seemed real whenever I filled up that
Camaro.

 

What is a CAM Ar O

Didn't you drive a Gremlin X?

 

1973 Camaro 8mpg. Drove up to NY, missed
the turn to Whitestone bridge and 4 hours
later ended up in front of that sign Welcome
to Brooklyn 4th largest city in the world. Or
something like that.

 

I think I made an incursion into Bensonhoist
as well.

 

too bad I missed you. I was living in Hollywood Florida at the time

Really, the 4th largest in the world?

 

how do I get this green crap off of this wheat?

They say not to clean coins but what about this wheat? I can't even see the date to see what it is.

 

It was that sign they always showed on Welcome
Back Cotter.

We lived on Simms street in Hollywood
when we first moved down here.

 

sand blaster, definitely. But like Paul said, the coin is not rare and has almost no Numismatic value, go have fun and go at it.

 

I actually lived near Griffith Road on the Ft Lauderdale side of the board. The school was on Sterling Road inside Hollywood, but it is just easier to say Hollywood then explain the boarder there.

 

I think it said the 4th largest city in the United States

 

Prpbably; it was a few years ago.

 

How do you know it isn't worth anything? What if it is a 1914d? I have no clue what it is. Too much green crap.