That came out nice beautiful coin
beautiful coin and yeah appears to have been coated with something... good luck on the conservation... Myself... I would start with boiling it in...
yeah a bit doctored but as i paid only about $60 and could probably flip it for 100 as is, so i'm still happy with it for the price... as for...
Besides, if they had done it right in the 1st place it wouldn't have washed off... you want to tone bright copper you use a simple super saturated...
Simply said, i think the coating was put on the coin to make it more attractive.. to be honest yes it looked nicer until you got it in hand, then...
coin was covered in a waxy greasy coating... just boiling got me this :D the before pics were a nicer chocolate brown but a truly cruddy coin.
Well the bad news is, yes it is with out doubt an 1802.... but.... It is the much harder to come by "no stems" 1802 and a great addition to the...
Oh i got the perfect auction win for this one this week! (sorry AirborneReams) (not that sorry but i'll say it anyway) 1787 New Jersey coin, which...
very very nice :D
That's one of my dream coins :D some day... some day... beautiful coin :D I got a quarter eagle now... slowly slowly :D
and I am very very pleased.. before [ATTACH] [ATTACH] add boiling distilled water.... (the 5 is very visible in hand but hard to see from...
That sucks, I in the process of adding a fake Hawaiian $1 to my collection... but i kinda expected it was for the price i paid..
Since I know i not getting a "refund" I think I'm gonna add them to my pocket change and put em into circulation, who knows I might spark the...
Well the add said "Mixed dates and mints" since not a single one of the buffalos had a date.. they sure as hell can't be "mixed" if there ain't any
I thought we did at one time but I can't seem to find it now. But I do have a dealer to add to it.. I'm ashamed to say they are from my home state...
86 hehe I entered Navy Boot camp in 86.. a very good year for me :D
Well my collecting started as a kid with a friend of my who was "coin nuts" but he got me interested and in the end that childhood collection...
Weirdest shaped coin I own :D 2012 Somolia $1 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Wonderful error coin and a big congratz on the 20k :D and here I was all happy about hitting 500 lol :D
I figure it already shows "attempted" cleaning on the back (scrape marks in the verdi) and a full conservation should eliminate most of those :D...
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