if you want to cut losses, and not put any money into it, simply carrying it around for a while as a pocket piece, handling it and putting a bit...
nickel :: noun A silvery, hard, ductile, ferromagnetic metallic element used in alloys, in corrosion-resistant surfaces and batteries, and for...
one more thing, it is a copper coin, the greening, is verdigris. It's copper acetate and copper carbonate and itself is oxidization corrosion as...
Found this thread researching verdigris removal. Some of you are still around. Wanting to know if any of you actually tried this and what was thew...
My opinion, they aren't going to do it. They can remove the green they can remove the dark toning. They can't do anything about corrosion at all...
Look, a rare coin or highly desirable coin is going to have a taker for a premium even if it's damaged or harshly cleaned. It's not going to sell...
I think I see it, is it here? [ATTACH]
I dunno about you guys, but I personally can't wait to find one in circulation!
Agree with Spark1951 in theory. it won't turn copper pink. Acetone is a 7 pH, not an acid or a base, right in the middle of the road like...
Jeopardy! style, give us the answers and make us guess the questions. I don't prefer either of the two options, I'm also partial to "Cash Cab...
exactly what I said.... "well, here we go again with a grinder..." LOL Very nice find James!
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] it's two different ones, my first and 2nd finds, thought the pictures were good with different backgrounds...
By the way, those MS69s are "satin finish" slabs or "SMS" slabs, it's not the Business Strike, circulation finish, which is another animal. there...
look, in a lot of cases, any modern circulation strike coin at MS67 and below isn't going to be worth the cost to get it graded because it's going...
Well you asked..... sorry.... "The term cud was first used by Mort Goodman in his writings on mint errors in the 1960s. He first used the term...
agree folded over finned rim.
it's damage, it's not from normal circulation wear and tear though, that intentionally damaging with some kind of a rotary power tool I think??
snooping again. $2.00 and .75 cents shipping, meh, you could have done a lot worse really. the pictures on the listing are better than the ones...
besides slot machines possibly taking half dollars, what arcade used 50 cent coins?? I found it, sorry I was snooping. I think you paid a bit...
it's what a cow chews all day long.
Separate names with a comma.
