BIG problem on this painted half.

I'm not sure if this is paint or nail polish, but I need to get it off. Any recommendations on what to use ?

Dave

 

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I'd start with an acetone bath Dave. Can't hurt the coin. Let it soak for a day or so.

 

Finally someone posted a picture of an AT coin.

 

I just got that............

 

Agreed with @green18 try acetone to start.

 

If it's paint or nail polish, acetone should make it like it was never there with no other harm to the coin.

 

Use acetone, not that the coin was worth much over silver melt to begin with.

 

It could be NT.. A 4 year old girl might "naturally" paint it with nail polish. LOL

But yeah, acetone and done.

 

That's what I was thinking also. Surely, this happened at some little girl's slumber party.

 

Almost looks like the eagle is bleeding on the reverse.

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I am guessing nail polish. Looks like juke box money to me. Don't see this as much as we used to.

 

Yeah, you need to get it off...

 

Juke box money...haven't heard that in a long while! $5 bills now.

 

Glad to know I'm not the only old timer around.

 

It's a done deal. The acetone worked great. Sitting in distilled mineral water now.

Thanks all.

 

Mojavedave, where did you get distilled mineral water?? Perhaps you meant De-ionized water? Jim

 

They call it distilled water at the grocery store where they sell it.

 

Wouldn't 50 cents be awfully steep for jukebox money back when this coin was circulating freely?

 

Way back in the early 60s when I was a kid, a friend had a cigarette machine route (man that sounds old), where he would deliver cigs and change to bars, taverns, etc that had cig machines. Often he would show me quarters "painted" red and explain that owners of jukeboxes would drop a few of these in to prime the pump, get people to playing them etc. The red coins would be easily spotted by the guys emptying the coin box on the jukebox and given back to the house for reuse. They were obviously spotted easily with the red finger nail polish. How some got over to the cig machines is anyone's guess. Of course cigs were about 35 cents so maybe the hired help would take a "house red" or two and buy cigs. - To the point of this 50 cent coin being read, half-dollars weren't used in the cig or juke boxes to my knowledge so maybe it is a 4 year girl painting them.

 

According to GoodStuffNowLLC they have sold units which accept half dollars. Growing up I never had 50 cents to put in one.