The error appears to be someone shot it with an air rifle. Wait for others, welcome to CoinTalk
Here's my smoothed Indian I am not unhappy with... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here is a very badly tooled coin from Google... [IMG] Here's a before and after [IMG]
Good luck!
The "drying" with linseed oil is the reaction of the unsaturation of the compound with atmospheric oxygen, creating a crosslinked polymer barrier....
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See, we all have trouble with Anglish
I'm thinking die polishing, check out the fields under the memorial for some scratching also.
From the world of Ancient Coins...a smoothed coin has had the background worked with some sort of tool to make the surface...smooth. A tooled...
Not intending to hijack, preservation has everything to do with cleaning.
What's wrong with linseed oil?
Yeah, but it bares repeating...:)
One of the challenges I faced was that I was not always careful; to note the price I paid, then I realized, if I sold them it didn't matter what I...
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The Mexican Peso from Chile?:)
Still circulated
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