Tell ya what, send those pics to Mike Diamond and see what he tells ya it is.
Nope, not at all. The moral of the story is that if you don't know what you are doing then you shouldn't try and clean coins. You can clean a...
That's plain old fashioned damage.
The die was damaged or scratched. But it's definitely not from the die being polished.
No it wouldn't. That's because if you do it correctly there are no oils left on your skin when you are finished. When dipping coins in acetone you...
My guess is that somebody put Deller's Darkener on that coin.
It's not rust. But it could be any of a lot of things. Post some pics and we can probably tell what it likely is.
grizz's link works fine. And then there is this link - http://www.coinshowradio.com - a radio show about coins that is put on by our own forum...
Yes the acetone should remove the tape residue. No it will not remove the toning, if it is toning and not discoloration caused by the tape. But...
OK, you tell me then. What would you expect NCS to improve on those coins ? The processes that NCS uses do not remove toning and there's...
My guess would be that the 20 cent was the only one graded and slabbed. The others look to have been harshly cleaned to me except for the Peace...
Siggi I can understand the desire to have them slabbed and thus protected, but I really don't see either of those coins benefitting from being...
Without a doubt, dipped coins. There are millions and millions of dipped coins in slabs and raw.
Honestly, I'm convinced it's because they have a lot of buyers that don't know what they are doing. I don't think it has anything to do with exposure.
My guess is that you hairlined the coin with the cotton swab. So odds are no matter who you submit it to now it'll come back the same. I'd leave it.
Looks natural to me, but even if it wasn't you couldn't tell the difference. But to submit it for grading - why ? The coin has a terrible strike,...
Interesting. I collected original sets for most of my life and I never saw, or even heard of anything like that. And no book or article I've ever...
Absolutely not.
There was no original cellophane. The '53 Mint Sets were in cardboard holders with a paper over-lay. But even if there had been, it would not...
They never could, neither can anybody else.
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