I'd be surprised if acetone would have any effect on it at all. Acetone is useful for removing crud and gunk. It will not have an effect on toning.
Most of the older issues required multiple dies to strike all the coins of a specific date. And since most dies were made by cobbling the various...
Someone spent $155 on a coin that is worth only half that amount if it turns out to have been cleaned.
Mine was an 1895 Morgan in PF-something. It was so long ago that I've forgotten the particulars except that it was at one of the Baltimore Whitman...
To me worse than that is TPG's giving grades to DETAILS coins, generally only a generic letter grade (VF, XF, etc.) Then sellers try to price...
THAT'S the key.
The coin is made of CuNi and therefore cannot have the any of the RD/RB/BN designatoers.
I have a hard time believing ANY 19th century copper can be truly RD. I personally avoid any graded as RD. Plus most (all?) will tone to RB over...
Appears to have a touch of wear on a few of the high points. At least an AU-58 (slider) and MS-something if I'm wrong about the wear. As high as...
As long as the first Gallery image was free I didn't care. I know enough HTML to post any other images in my Description.
One side: I might believe. Both sides: No way.
IF it's truly MS-63 and IF it's truly DMPL then "yes", send it in. Anything less and my answer is "no".
With the two rim damage areas 180° apart I wouldn't be surprised if that coin was in a holder of some sort (belt buckle?) at one time.
Nice on the IHC.
This is the reason that I wanted eBay to have a continuing scale for listing fees. If I recall correctly the top listing fee was something like...
Correct, but unfortunately there are a LOT of newbies out there who don't know better. When they figure it out later that may turn them off coin...
Mountainside, NJ Sounds very familiar to me. May be from my stamp collecting days. No good/bad memories.
What I see (or actually don't see) is toning in the protected areas. With gold that's not as definitive analysis as it would be with the other...
Some people are sidestepping the restriction by using an alternate spelling. I've seen "eCuba".
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