Better pics (sorry, that dark carbon silver is tough to focus on):
Really? With dings as minor as those? Ok. Which details grade would you assign?
This Morgan has a pair of minor rim dings at 7:00 and some chatter on Liberty's chin. Plus, the toning is rather dark. Would the rim dings factor...
I'm not the greatest at VAM attribution, but I noticed something interesting going on at this one at the same point that there's a die break on...
PM coming soon. Thanks for handling this!
Agreed. I think this was the coin in the batch that convinced me to try out a few cleaning techniques. It was like seeing mud splashed on a Rembrandt.
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...
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