I think the luster is unaffected. The photos were taken with artificial light instead of daylight though.
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Another 8 hours of distilled water with lemon juice is starting to reach diminishing returns: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
3 hours of lemon infused distilled water shows continued signs of improvement. I changed the water for the 2nd 90 minutes: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
90 minutes in diluted lemon juice: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Some improvement after 30 minutes in diluted lemon juice: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Starting another coin with lemon juice. 1 cap full to 1/2 cup of distilled water. Here are the before pics: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] And after 10...
5 days of distilled water (or is it 6 now?) and I'm seeing diminishing returns from additional soaking:
Ive got to be just missing this in my Krause catalog... can anyone help me ID this 25mm ish coin (roughly US quarter sized)? Thanks! [ATTACH]...
I always hope, but there's a reason the rare varieties are rare. Especially when looking at a 140 year old coin, the odds are the variety would...
Pics didn't upload properly, so I'll try again. This is the distilled water after 3 days.
The distilled water is working, albeit very slowly. Here are the results after 3 days of soaking. I thought nothing was happening, but quite a bit...
I'm trying to make sure that I'm not talking myself into this being a key date. What date do you make it out to be? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I'm...
I'm terrible at grading these. Picked this one up in a foreign silver group. What grade would you assign, and how much is it worth in your...
How much did it set you back?
I treated another Morgan (an 1889s) with the remaining acetone. It appeared to be covered in soot, so I was hoping to observe better results with...
I'm terminating the acetone test. After 30 hours, the rust appears to be unaffected. The fields may be slightly more pleasant to the eye (any...
What is holding the iron oxide onto the silver and copper? These don't normally bond, so is it possible that there's an organic compound that's...
For Morgan #4, I'll give this a try.
Would there be a reaction between the iron and the silver or copper that's causing the rust to adhere? Or is it probably something like...
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