Guilty your honor :) And for the record, I voted against those dogs with no legs to speak of !
No it will not ! To understand why it won't, and can't, all you have to do is understand what verdigris actually is. The easiest way to do that is...
He was doing fine the last I spoke to him but that was several months ago.
The coin is within the specified tolerance for weight Scrogggy.
All the TPGs offer the service, even some private individuals offer the service. But every one of them will say their methods are proprietary and...
Yeah, he's around, visited CT yesterday according to his profile. As for threads, since you mentioned him in your first post I kind of assumed...
Acetone dissolves and removes 100% of PVC residue 100% of the time. So as I said above, if there was any PVC residue on the coin, it's gone now....
Xylene isn't going to help. And if there was any PVC residue on the coin the acetone has already removed it. This is your before picture, look at...
I think all but some of the newer members know this - I sold my entire collection in 2006 - and haven't bought a coin or collected any since. But...
It's a little more than completely natural, it is way beyond common for coin collectors. The vast majority of collectors got through periods in...
A lot of people call them, or refer to them as milk spots but the spots we see in the pics in this thread are not milk spots. Milk spots are...
This is far more common than most people think. And Burton is right, it occurs when the planchets are punched out of the strip. In simple terms...
They are not milk spots. The spots you see on the reverse were caused by some foreign material getting onto the coin. In all honesty, it looks...
The doldrums ? That's sure not how I'd phrase it. The most recent bear market in coins that started in 2008, and kept dropping until the end of...
No, those scratches are not the result of someone cleaning the coin incorrectly. There are many ways they could have occurred during the life of...
Acetone will only remove fresh fingerprints. Once fingerprints have been on a coin for a week or a bit longer, acetone will no longer remove them....
You're each bad enough on your own. But if you two ever got together ... :wideyed: I'm not sure if the world could survive :rolleyes:
I wouldn't worry about it, appears to be nothing more than a spot of verdigris which is well known to occur on coins other than cents from time to...
Although I don't see a "need" for it, nor do I see any real benefit to be gained, I don't foresee any problem with having it cleaned. But as...
Same type, series, date and mint - but in a higher grade than the one you already own. Unless you're a TPG of course. Then it's the exact same...
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