Dipping copper coins in acetone often gives the coin a pinkish cast.
If you are dead set on cleaning the coins, just go buy a commercial coin dip and use it. It's a lot safer - for you !
OK - let's provide some reading material on the subject. The first is an article from Coin World - Click Here The second is conatined in an ANA...
See what I mean about the two terms being misunderstood ? Now, let's talk about a few of the comments made so far. To a degree this is...
Well, they all say they do.
It's been dipped in a commercial coin dip and then dipped in acetone by the look of it.
Probably about as easy as it is to make fake coins. And there are millions and millions of those.
It is exactly the toning issue. From the mint they are Red - period. It is toning that turns them to Red Brown or Brown. It is just a matter of...
The 390499 number is the number that PCGS has assigned to that particular coin. They assign a number to every coin.
Yes it is. That is exactly why I am reasonably sure it is toning and not plating. There are a great many coins with toning on one side only - it...
Not sending the grade labels back in has the opposite effect on price guides. In other words, the larger the population is the lower the price....
They are indeed far apart, but there are authenticated examples just like it. I agree that the coin has a nicer reverse, but coins are graded...
In another thread about grading the question came up about market grading vs technical grading. Because these two terms are so often misunderstood...
Can't say for sure since I have yet to see one in person, but I doubt it. Most holographic stickers are made in such a manner that if removal is...
OK, fair enough. But before I go any further let me ask you another question - which grading standards do you personally use ? edit - rather...
Looks like toning to me.
Perhaps it is mechanical doubling, but for whatever reason - I don't think it is. I would have it looked at.
All we have to go by are pics, when you get the coin then please tell us what is really there or not.
OK Mike - a question, what is your definition of market grading ?
Take another look. I am not saying that the spacing is wrong, this in no way looks like your typical 1944 turned into a 1914. And I see nothing...
Separate names with a comma.
