And all those thorns, and cactus spines, and toothpicks, and and and - they will all scratch a coin. And no, I'm not picking on anybody, merely...
I did better than that, I told him he did a good job :)
A lot of people think that but it isn't true. The reason they think that is because they can't dip copper and have it turn out right. But that...
First of all I'm not singling you out here, just trying to make a point, and your comment does a good job of illustrating why it needs to be made....
That's not the right way to say it, but you've got the idea. The correct way to phrase it is that the metal in the planchet could not reach the...
Fair enough. One last thing to consider, it is not unusual for the TPGs to sometimes rinse coins before they slab them. And if that happened to...
LDS vs EDS - How do you tell? I cannot speak to the specific coin in question as to why the TPG would recognize one die state as being a given...
Other than what you mentioned about the harsh cleaning - no. But in my opinion, in one way or the other, the coin has most definitely been harshly...
Yup, sure is. And once corroded it is forever corroded. Yup, sure is. However, that is not a reason to straight grade coins that are problem...
Honest question for you Kurt, did where you live change during that time ? I'm only asking because that, coupled with the slabs, could easily be a...
Why do people dip coins?!? There are numerous reasons: to protect the coin from being permanently damaged by excessive toning, to remove ugly or...
I guess it kinda depends on what you mean by natural. Naturally toned copper can be almost any color you can imagine. And by the same token it...
The key word in your comment is "can". In other words, using acetone on copper might result in that coin turning a weird color, or it might not....
Yeah, it could be done, but only if and when the die with angled surface was the anvil die. Otherwise the struck coin could not be pushed out the...
Please reads this - https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-albums-holders-damaging-quality.314189/page-2#post-3046107 In that post I describe how...
I should have mentioned in my previous post that if fingerprints are fresh, acetone and or xylene will remove them simply by soaking the coins in...
MS70 is very well known for causing copper coins to turn various shades of blue and purple. I would recommend that it is never used on copper.
No time to respond today, gotta go, but I will tomorrow.
It depends on what's on the coins. Starting with distilled water is recommended because doing so isn't going to hurt anything, and because...
You're not gonna like hearing this but those old Whitman folders are just about the worst possible storage method there is. Between the sulfur...
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