Hey everyone. I haven't been on in a while, but I wanted to share these pictures with you. I tried to use acetone to remove the white crap from these Blue Ikes that I picked up (once I was positive that even out of the holder, you could still tell they're silver). When the film didn't come off, I got impatient and threw it into some of the blue coin acid thing. (The stuff that looks like jewelry cleaner, but is supposedly for coins.) Then, not thinking, I dropped the coins back into the acetone bath to rinse them off. They started to have these ugly yellow splotches on them. Anyway, this was a couple months ago. I put the coins into mylar sleeves and back into the envelopes. The result was strange, to say the least. The white coin with gold splotching turned into a gold coin with blue/purple splotching. I didn't think to take pictures of the "before" coin, as the plan was to sell them as "40% junk" the moment I placed it into the acetone bath. The colours remind me of the type that you see with British proof nickel/copper coins. They look "easter egg" like. Clearly artificial. Now, the funny thing is, the coins still have their original luster. The only reason you know they're the "silver" Ike coins when looking at them is the edges remained white.
I don't really think so. The coin would have been body-bagged as Environmental Damage before the "cleaning." It was completely covered in blue-green-white PVC residue. I agree that cleaning isn't recommended, but I wouldn't have done anything if I didn't believe the coin was only worth spot to begin with. As for the question about the focus ring, nope. It was taken with a point and shoot. I do have an SLR, but didn't see the point to taking it out, as I don't know how I'd capture the colours anyway. I actually find the coin kind of funny, since it almost looks the tone of the Sacagawea dollars after they've been circulated for a while, but the rim is clearly still a silver clad colour.
I don't think anyone with any common sense would have wasted the cost of submitting this coin unless they felt it would have returned a 70 on the label. But that's just MO.
That's true. But I don't have a lot of common sense. I just wanted to see if it was a die variety, since I haven't seen one yet.
