Might be working on another Estate gig. It’s a huge collection and lots of boxes yet to be unpacked. At this point I’ve instructed that nothing be touched. I requested some pics and will share a few.
If that's a good representation...phew...chills. Just getting to look through it would be fun enough.
I know right. The last one I worked on was great fun, and the gentleman seemed to know his stuff. There were approx 1,500 coins, some graded, raw etc. I will say I was occasionally swearing quite a bit. I estimated approx 30K worth of damage due to long term storage in pvc aka shower curtain flips. I’d even found several shoe cases full of extra flips.
Sure, I’ll update. I have a bit to do to finalize my involvement. Everything has to be in order as I’ve been burned before being to trusting with my time.
This just reminds me of what may happen to my meager collection when I'm gone. Sort of depressing that none of my friends or family gives a fig about collecting.
Yes, much better than the usual 50 state quarter collection. I’ll see what happens. My gal said there’s tons more of “gold looking coins”. I know her very well, but not the heirs. So along with a bunch of other cautions I just told her to not touch anything. This stuff is raw as can be and I’d hate for everyone to be handling the coins. Sounds weird but I’m sure y’all understand.
Yep, this is the kind of thing that comes to mind when I hear someone say "it must be fake, if it were real it would already be in a slab".
I am in the process of transferring coins that are in old pvc flips to new vinyl flips. Is it possible to mitigate the pvc damage by soaking the coins in acetone?
I had a lot of people say oh y’a, we can take it off. Welp, they did, result Details Cleaned. The damage on the ones I had was fairly substantial. Copper of course all 2 cents.
Thanks for that info. I was under the impression that an acetone soak wouldn't result in a Details grading for Cleaning.
I don’t know what they used, they were sent off for consignment. I thought I remember however that acetone can cause color changed, pink. I could be wrong though.
Well, again, if there was actual PVC damage, nothing was going to undo that. Yes, folks here have said that an acetone soak has left copper coins an unnatural color. As far as I know nobody's refuted the possibility that the acetone simply removed a layer of gunk that was concealing discoloration. I wasn't there, so I can't say; maybe I couldn't say if I was there.
