I reserve this for special occasions - http://tinyurl.com/339dd4 The light bulb has at last gone on :D
But none of us are quite as old as you Frank :D Why, if the truth be told when you answered the question asked in this thread, the only possible...
It's complicated :) Seriously, it really is. In simplest terms, it's when one person goes at another. In the beginning, when forums first...
Not at all. Rather, they and myself, concluded exactly what should be concluded - that sometimes when you use acetone on a copper coin, that coin...
Pretty coins !
Now if you're gonna say it Thad let's at least be accurate :) I have never claimed that acetone on copper will always cause weird colors, only...
I'm going to do something here that I don't normally do in situations like this. I dunno, maybe I should, maybe I shouldn't, but I'm gonna do it...
By all means experiment on junk coins for a good deal can be learned from doing so. Just realize and understand a few things for if you are going...
Oh I am so tempted to say something here, but I won't. :D
To be honest with you Hugh this isn't the place for you to air your grievances and/or complaints about this issue. The place for doing that is in...
That's kind of like saying surgery to remove a malignant tumor causes damage to the body. Sure, the body is cut (damaged) and part of the body may...
But the two that came back details, were they given the details because of the dipping, or for something else ? In other words your comment, at...
Well that's kind of the thing, you never know. The issue with die diagnostics is this, sometimes there aren't any, sometimes for a couple of...
For the record, the drama is over and done with. I suggest you all keep it that way. I believe for most my suggestion will be more than enough....
It's really hard to say based on pics because you really can't see the the surfaces well enough. And die diagnostics don't work well for...
My point Michael was the mint didn't put anything on coins (other than those I mentioned) to try and prevent them from toning.
I just got around to reading this thread today. I suspect you have seen thousands, maybe even tens of thousands, of dipped coins and never even...
To be honest, the special designations are pretty much meaningless when it comes to quality of strike. In other words, none of them actually...
As I said, they threw the definition of wear out and came up with one that suits their purposes. And the point still remains that there is...
Quite often that has absolutely nothing to do with it. In a great many cases coins are harshly cleaned merely because their owners want them to...
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