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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 7838822, member: 105098"]nahh. acidic soil and buried and cleaned. it's taken off material in a uniform manner and shrunk the coin. it also appears to have been cleaned which would have taken off more metal in that process. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think that's what's going on here. if the acidic environment has uniform contact, it will eat away metal in a uniform pattern from the highs and the lows at the same rates. what you can't really avoid is the damaged surface from the acid. the black areas suggest terminal toning also, and bad. If it was wear, the deticles would be flattened like the other coin is.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it was in the ground for a while, toned terminally and got eaten up by acidic soil, and someone tried cleaning it up after finding it and that's as good as it gets. surfaces are flat and lusterless also. </p><p><br /></p><p>probably it was in pretty outstanding condition when it was lost though to have that much left all the details from the date to the ribbon are "thinner/smaller" in appearance. even the rim is further away from the stars on the obverse and letters on the reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>And if wear, that Liberty in the headband wouldn't be there, E Pluribus Unum would be "more gone" also, if it was a thin planchet, it wouldn't be there, full details would not be struck. it's there, and I don't know if that was added, but my guess is, environmental conditions just dropped it all at the same speeds, and then someone tried really hard to clean it up and this is the result. so, going with buried, acidic environment, probably high in sulfur and it was probably a thick black layer on it for decades eating away from the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 7838822, member: 105098"]nahh. acidic soil and buried and cleaned. it's taken off material in a uniform manner and shrunk the coin. it also appears to have been cleaned which would have taken off more metal in that process. I think that's what's going on here. if the acidic environment has uniform contact, it will eat away metal in a uniform pattern from the highs and the lows at the same rates. what you can't really avoid is the damaged surface from the acid. the black areas suggest terminal toning also, and bad. If it was wear, the deticles would be flattened like the other coin is. I think it was in the ground for a while, toned terminally and got eaten up by acidic soil, and someone tried cleaning it up after finding it and that's as good as it gets. surfaces are flat and lusterless also. probably it was in pretty outstanding condition when it was lost though to have that much left all the details from the date to the ribbon are "thinner/smaller" in appearance. even the rim is further away from the stars on the obverse and letters on the reverse. And if wear, that Liberty in the headband wouldn't be there, E Pluribus Unum would be "more gone" also, if it was a thin planchet, it wouldn't be there, full details would not be struck. it's there, and I don't know if that was added, but my guess is, environmental conditions just dropped it all at the same speeds, and then someone tried really hard to clean it up and this is the result. so, going with buried, acidic environment, probably high in sulfur and it was probably a thick black layer on it for decades eating away from the coin.[/QUOTE]
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