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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 1581391, member: 2972&quot;]The red all over the coin.&nbsp; The green hidden in the hair curls to the left of the curl.&nbsp; Both are corrosion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, some of the verdigris (i.e. black smut) most visible along Liberty outline and also the stars on the obverse, which almost certainly has porosity/corrosion underneath it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As an aside, on a recolored coin, these areas would be devoid of verdigris, and only the porosity would remain.&nbsp; When you see that porosity without the verdigris in the recesses of a coin, it&#039;s a strong clue that someone has boinked with the coin, IMO.&nbsp; However, if this porosity is all over the coin (as in the obverse of Lance&#039;s 1816), it could be a boinking clue, but it could also be a result of a porous planchets to begin with -- as is often seen on most of the middle-dates.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the kind words and you&#039;re welcome.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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