Nice return, he made enough to pay for his work! LOL
Big money exchanges hands at every show. Theives are everywhere, some more, some less and some not at all. It all has to do with location. I...
LOL I'll be sure I'm not picking up the soap at that time. :eek: :)
23s - 63bn 13 - 65rd 26d - 64bn 17d - 64bn
I really hate toluene. It's close to xylene, but xylene is a million times better to work with IMO.
leeg - WOW! You did a fantastic job on the copper! It looks so much better now. I'm with Doug here. That is a very old text. What is the source?...
WOW! That's fantastic!
Yes, carbonate salts, carbonate radicals and carbon dioxide gas. Sometimes my brain works faster than my fingers and I may not be exact in my...
Looks good, I think I can even see the die chip in the MM. Send it out for grading!
It's probably around a $100 or less coin, I wouldn't bother getting it slabbed.
Yes, it will take some effort to read and understand the book. There's no two ways about it. I'm writing it because of a serious dearth of...
Actually, some verdigris components are organic, i.e. acetate, formate and carbon dioxide.
Charmy, the terms are well explained throughout the book and there's sections before this one where it's all spelled out. By the time you get to...
Yes, excellent point. The verdigris removal sections are only random thoughts at the moment. It's a work in progress. I will modify the section to...
Sure. There's some of us that collect counterfeits as a novelty. I paid a lot more than that for my 1909-S VDB fake.
Here's a little snippet from my verdigris book:
Thanks for your insight and input on this thread Charmy. Your comments were exactly what I was looking for to educate myself.
For once I have to disagree with you Jim. IMHO, there are only two actions: CLEANING AND CONSERVATION. Cleaning is unacceptable in any form. It...
Wow, we really have some posts in this thread now. LOL What Jim said is correct. The atoms in a metal are so tight there's no "porosity"....
The differences you see are most likely due to die wear.
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