This is patently false and perpetuating such a myth does a disservice to other collectors. Water, acetone and xylene don't chemically react with...
1) I would SAFELY CLEAN them by soaking in water. Water doesn't interact with the metal in the coins. It can, however, dislodge or remove dirt...
There is no such thing . . . depending on how you define "cleaning".
A google search for "youtube floating head penny" will answer your question.
This is one of the reasons why I don't store coins or other valuable tangibles in my SDB. Only important documents, and even those I make sure to...
I think it's also a DDR (Dashed Dreams of Riches).
Ha ha! Nobody here is going to care about prices for rotted Zincolns. I'll repeat, if you're going to bring up the subject of prices, be willing...
How confident are you that your scale is accurate down to a hundredth of a gram? Coin looks genuine to me as well. Welcome to CoinTalk.
No? Then why have you quoted eBay prices twice already in this short thread? If you're going to quote prices, expect responses about prices.
On ebay, what a seller asks for a coin and what they get for a coin are often two vastly different amounts. Only trust the "sold" listings.
Naked blacksmithing is fine. But I draw the line at naked welding.
Cool haul. The coin that says Urraca is from Panama. That's a long way from home, as is the nekkid guy Italian coin.
And, it disinfects!
Probably have to encase them in solid blocks of Lucite for that to happen. I don't think a TPG slab will cut it.
All depends on how you choose to define "complete set". If I collected Lincolns, I think I'd pursue Lincoln wheats as a set, and Lincoln bronze...
The epiphany that changed my life as a coin collector . . . the day I asked myself, "Wait, do I really need a bunch of examples of the same coin...
A lot of the 2 Euro commems are quite interesting, and I enjoy collecting them from the EU countries I've visited.
I meant it won't remove a fingerprint. At least it never has for me. Acetone is great for other things, though.
Acetone won't do anything.
V. Kurt Bellman's Kodak S-10 solution would take that fingerprint off and leave no trace.
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