I was hoping this thread might morph into a discussion/summation of what people have done to identify what the white spots are and hopefully to...
Say what? I've posted pics of spotted coins; one of which was really ugly.
Well you have to consider market potential. Nobody is going to pay you or me to conserve a graded coin if they can't get it reholdered exactly...
You keep missing my drift. Let's assume that there is a method to remove milk spots. The method is in the hands of the person who discovered it. A...
You've been there and done that, amirite? I'm talking about a coin already in a PCGS holder. If you crack it out, dip it or whatever and send it...
I figured that since pollen spots aren't an issue with coins.:) Then again, salt spray mist is not the reason that silver eagles get milk spots...
Like yellow rain and bee chit?:) http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1989/12/9/harvard-prof-honored-for-yellow-rain/
PCGS spent a lot of money fixing/guaranteeing issues that weren't of their doing. When the mint finally owned up to being the source of the...
Other than someone who paid a ton of stupid money for an ASE, who would use the service? They are as common as dirt and most people would just...
Salt spray from da ocean. IIRC, they say it can be detected as far as 50 miles inland. I can't imagine that it would react with silver even if it...
I posted a pic of a 1998 coin with issues, so it's hard to say when it started; probably has always been there. I did note in the past that there...
Do you have a link to the Weimer discussion? Nevermind, I found it. Actually it's Weimar White and not W. Wiemar. I assume if the chloride comes...
You may not care, but apparently many others do. I don't slab bullion either [nor do I plan to stack it]. BTW, how many folks who talked about...
I asked simply because I have heard from a number of people about how nice the 2014 and 2015 coins were and I was wondering if perhaps the Mint...
Does anyone know if spotting has been an issue with the 2014 and 2015 regular issue bullion coins?
Kinda cloudy n gloomy here, but we do need the rain. Otherwise it is a fine day. Regardless of what the spot material is, it is not added after...
How common is spotting on silver rounds?
That should be easy enough to prove or disprove.
The serious numismatist will simply find unspotted coins. He did mention the use of borax which does not seem to be a contaminant on ASEs.
Has it been established chemically that those spots are different than spots on ASEs or modern silver coins?
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