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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tanton, post: 2795020, member: 85554&quot;]After hours of reading up on acetone + Lincoln cents over the past week I finally picked a can up at a hardware store near me and have been fooling around with some pocket change just to see how it reacts before I try it on anything half decent... Anyways I read through the whole long thread from a few years back on acetone and it&#039;s reactions (or lack there of) to copper and wanted to get an opinion on the decision making process between the risk(if any) vs reward of either dipping or using a qtip on a coin like this; or just leaving it be. Obviously after reading the threads I should be able to make the decision on my own but I&#039;d just like to get some outside input to try and tie everything together.</p><p><br /></p><p>This 1958 had the best luster, least marks overall, and probably WOULD have been the highest grade I found in an old BU roll, however the oxidation killed it (at least I suspect it did). It appears to be contaminated with some small substance seen in the center of the spot on Lincolns Head. Now I&#039;m not sure if it would be considered natural oxidation or irreversible oxidation, or if parts of it have potential to be saved and others aren&#039;t worth it? </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I guess what I&#039;m asking is; is it possible to remove the marks (or even some)with acetone without ruining the luster? Would the spotting effect the grade more than any negative results of the acetone(removing luster/tone/adding any hue)? How much would this type of spotting effect the otherwise high MS- as in one step down, two steps etc? </p><p><br /></p><p>Then also just for future knowledge- and I know it&#039;s only speculation- what would anyone roughly grade this at? Both with the spots, and without the spots(assuming the spots never existed)? </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s definitely easy to look at examples of pictures from past auctions, going for big money and saying &quot;psh I totally have one that&#039;s cleaner than that one&quot;.. at this point I&#039;m trying to learn to weed out my gut feelings from the facts/evidence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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