Nabbed this as a buy-it-now for $17! Sellers scans vs my pics. I gave it an acetone bath before. He called it AU, I say it's MS62. Nice luster in-hand. What do you think?
First pic looks dry, small chem bath again on that one prob wash/burn it out. Second pic appears as digital pic that someone hit too hard with more than one of the software's offered effects. Not at all implying that it is, but for all I know it could be the same coin without done to it at all. Sorry. More pics might help
Um, I think you're on a different channel from the rest of us. The first images were from the seller, done on a scanner, not a camera. The second is a conventional digital-camera image. Both sets portray the same coin, unaltered. Coin cleaning isn't the only thing we discuss here...
Yes. Somehow I missed the part about the acetone bath. But I couldn't follow your comment about "small chem bath" -- it sounded like you were talking about treating a photographic negative, not a coin.
I used to develop my own negatives, then enlarger, and move the paper down the line myself (Ilford anyone?). I should have wrote "quick", or "shorter time period" plus added that chems could be one or more in a solution usually depending on the alloy. Acetone is good, have you experimented with other ketones? Or other classes of organic molecules?
I've gotten a few great deals thanks to scanner pics. I've probably given some too, before I got my camera set up.
