:whistle: Ok i have a 1921 dollar with waxy ear just your thought's on grade and would you give it a acetone bath? Thank's dave
it is a dollar : It is to late for a bath tonight So it is going to have wait till moring to hear if it need's bath until someone tell's me it Must have a bath
acetone :whistle: One acetone bath later What do you think Do need think it need's one more and what grade do you think Dave
Whoa, if Acetone puts that much shine on Miss Liberty, then I may never use it! I believe that it qualified as a nice AU-53 coin with quite a bit of Mint Luster left on on it before the Acetone bath but now, I don't know! Next time, I would first just try a hot water bath with no soap and a pat dry in a sift towel. Frank
You ruined anything original on the coin. I suggest NEVER doing that again. I mean this is a good experiment and all, good thing it wasn't a key date.
And P.S. That acetone bath did nothing for what I thought you wanted to rid of, the waxy ear. It just made the coin look polished, and really in fact made it uglier in my opinion.
It gave the coin a polished look, most acetone baths don't look like that, do they? I had no idea it would do that to a coin. The coin looks better in the first set of photos, before being thrown in acetone, just my opinion.
no harm done, even though it looks worse. Maybe lost $1 in value. A 21 is junk unless high mint state.
i agree :goofer: Igree it look's to have taken on a polished look but that was my first try at acetone might have left it to long in the bath but not a key date and injoyed the exp: But waxy ear had to be cleaned Dave
It didn't exactly get rid of the "wax" It changed color, and made it fade, it didn't get rid of it, as I can still see where it is. I'd say you can experiment with common dates, but I wouldn't do it with anything rare.
Well it got rid of all the "WAX" this time, and all the other gunk, it makes the coin look cleaner, but un-original, like the before pics.
iagree :goofer: Yes it look'cleaner but you can see more mark's on the face I plan to leave it out in the sun hopefully it might get some toneing Dave
