The one I posted above was in acetone for only a few minutes.
Here is one of mine that had glue on it. I soaked it in acetone and the glue came off easy. But, you can see that the surface under th e glue was...
Looks like foreign material of some kind. There seems to be another deposit just to the left in the photo.
@Broucheion and anyone else, I corrected the description for the second coin. I hope I made the right correction.
Thank you @Broucheion my cut and paste was sloppy. I will edit it.
US circulation grade coins and any ancient that I have to clean.
Too much toning for me. Makes it look artificial. JMO
Some Ancients that I finished recently. They were very difficult to get to the detail as both have heavy silvering. Constantius II, AE of...
Thanks for sharing. That is what searching is all about.
Here is another AE4 I came across in my cleaned coins: Constans, AE4, Thessalonica. AD 336-337. CONSTANS-PF AVG, laurel and rosette-diademed,...
My best AE4 All of my ancient coins have been purchased as found from dug lots. I then clean and ID them. Constantius II AE4. Obv: CONSTANTI-VS...
My aunt was treasurer of a large boiler manufacturing company. Sometime in the early 50's she cleaned out the vault. There was a 100,000 Mark note...
So now every tinhorn treasure hunter will be posting bicentennials and asking where they can sell them.
The USPS makes wallpaper (too many stamp issues each year) and the US Mint is making ballast. After collecting for 75 years I quit a couple of...
Good luck @Laurie B and keep in touch.
What did you do that fer? I thought I had a complete set of Peace dollars. Now you show this.
Great find. I think I found one a while back. When I was young we got them in change almost everyday.
Happy New Year. My resolution is to not open posts with a bunch of thumbnails asking the forum to figure out what's going on with this coin.
Great job.
Nice. I can't even find finger prints in the local Coinstar bins.
Separate names with a comma.
