It has to be understood and acknowledged that if verdigris is present, and every single time verdigris is present, permanent damage has already...
As already stated, there are several theories as to what causes milk spots but nobody knows with any degree of certainty what really causes them....
We also have to keep in mind that when it comes to things like key dates and rarities/scarcities, coins with a certain provenance or pedigree,...
No price guide, regardless of who publishes it, is worth the paper or the bandwidth it takes - they are all worthless. When it comes to prices...
"What am I Missing" Yeah, sometimes it does. But I also think that knowledgeable and semi-knowledgeable collectors either forget or fail to...
In all honesty it's not big enough or severe enough to warrant the coin being labeled as a problem coin. When it comes to judging things like a...
There are no milk spots on that coin. Milk spots have a very specific look and are easily identified once one knows what they look like. That...
I feel I would be remiss if I did not post something here. As I'm sure just about all of you know there are a lot of post missing from this...
Xylene is a bit "stronger" than acetone, but it won't remove verdigris either. That said I don't doubt what you're saying because verdigris is...
No it does not, it has no effect on it whatsoever. There are only two commercial products that I've ever even heard of that dissolve and remove...
Intercept lined boxes, when combined with other proper storage techniques, do a great job of greatly slowing down and or preventing toning on...
Not anymore :)
By all means do so. But understand this, Verdi-Care will not prevent further damage, it merely removes the green stuff. Only YOU can prevent...
Sorry but I don't know the answers to your questions. Well, maybe the last one - they're making money of course by getting paid to produce that...
Just be aware that when you get some that Verdi-Care, when used properly, will usually remove light verdigris, (your coin qualifies in that...
Hmmm - must be time to shorten that dog's leash again ! :p
Please read my comments about proper storage in post #9 in this thread -...
Indeed it is. In point of fact I used to have very rich folks pay me a whole lot of money to make the very expensive copper roofs on their...
The single spot by the eye - that's verdigris. As for what's on the rev, that may be too but it's harder to tell based on the pics. Here's the...
Maybe, maybe not. There's no way to tell for certain just by looking at it. But if it is, acetone will take it off. I've explained the proper...
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