Before and After pictures

Hey everyone, here's an 1864 L I have been resurrecting from the tomb it came out of.
I am not one for cleaning, but this was preservation. That stuff on there was chewing away and ruining the coin.
How'd I do? It's been nearly a 2 months of working on this to get it to this point.
I started it with a quick dip in Acetone, which yielded no results. This stuff was on there for good! After that I gave it a week long soak in some coin care, and started chiseling with a toothpick. This stuff was incredibly hard and took several week long soaks to get the next layer of encrustation off.
The before pictures are from a couple months ago so I admit they aren't the best, but you get the idea,
I'd love to hear grade opinions. I put it (surprisingly) at VF 35 for details, then Net all the way down to a 15 or 20.
I am incredibly happy with my end result and it was a great learning experience for exactly how fragile copper is!
opinions?

 

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Nice job, looks like full liberty to me.

 

Yes, it is. It is such a shame it happened to this coin. It would have been dang nice!

 

Wow. Came out great considering what it used to look like. Not really familiar with coincare, does it leave a coating on the coin?

 

Yes it does. I took the pictures before I gave it a full cleanse of the coin care residue. I have since gave it a distilled water bath and it resides in a flip.

 

Maybe you should apply for a job at NCS.

 

You did a good job of making the coin appear better in pics Snaz, are they accurate? Good job at saving a doggy !!!!

We obviously have a bodybagger here now ( it was a bagger all along tho ), but I think you did well. Thats an Ebay gem BU

 

Nice work. It looks to bright to me though.

 

Yeh they are fairly accurate it shows the chatter in the fields nicely. One thing that doesn't show up is some white "crustys" kinds. Those shouldn't be an issue though. Yeh. And no doubt bodybag material. But it's good for my hole.

 

Excellent job! :thumb:

Active corrosion on copper has to be stopped and the best way to do it is to remove it so I'm in full agreement with you that it isn't true cleaning, it's conservation! That now has a chance of being around in 500 years but before, it was doubtful.

Ribbit

 

That was some ULTRA thick verdigris on the reverse. I would have loved to try some VERDI-GONE™ on that one!

 

I am on the verge of officially vouching for the Verdigone, a few more days of testing. The product is amazing, I am very impressed so far. Good job Thad, you have done the hobby a favor.

 

good job. That coin is a great hole filler. It should be around for a while now.

 

very nice conservation , great work

 

I'm gonna do just that next week with a similar IHC.
I have been experimenting with Verdi-Gone and I really like the results. It does a superb job on lite spots. The heavy ones take a little work with a toothpick then another soak. I will be buying more of it in the future!

 

Thanks guys.. Now I have a needy 1867, :rolling:.
I swear I'm not just doing this for fun. These all need it.

 

Good job bringing that one back from the dead.

 

Thanks Jack, I'm glad you're liking the product....IMO, it has it's place...but no chemical is a miracle cure. It has to be used intelligently!

This coin would have been a very difficult case and it would require physical action, the verdigris was just too deep. Without physical action, VERDI-GONE™ would have eventually removed it, but it would be DAYS of soaking and the patina would definately be lightened. I really don't like to see people use VERDI-GONE™ in that way.

 

If VERDI-GONE was used in conjunction with an ultra sonic cleaner, it should be able to get the deep stuff.

Ribbit

 

Nice job!