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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2555226, member: 24314&quot;]Back from a long day at work and a nice dinner, otherwise I should have replied much sooner.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s get some things clear.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>1. Pish&#039;s coin was <b><span style="color: #b30000">corroded</span></b> and still shows signs of it.&nbsp; You can either believe what you wish or learn what active corrosion looks like and what it does to the surface of a coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; I learned something here that I need to verify.&nbsp; [USER=33176]@Kentucky[/USER], a chemist, claims that it is possible for a silvered surface to remain under corrosion.&nbsp; I should <span style="color: #b30000">NEVER</span> believe that based on my experience dealing with corroded coins; however, I will tend to believe him for now.&nbsp; As to resilvering ancients - it is done (plenty) and you don&#039;t need to be a rocket scientist to do it.&nbsp; I told a member of the ancient forum a very simple and cheap way (without electricity) in a PM this morning.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; I <span style="color: #b30000">VERY RARELY</span> give out praise to anyone.&nbsp; The &quot;Omega Man&quot; a state-of-the-art-counterfeiter in the 1970&#039;s was one I can remember.&nbsp; YOC is another. What he did to Pish&#039;s corroded coin is incredible.&nbsp; That&#039;s why I called him an artist and a genius.&nbsp; That is as true as the fact that the coin was a corroded <b><span style="color: #663300">EDIT</span></b> before he fixed it.&nbsp; I believe he used both a mechanical (<span style="color: #006633">ultrasonic</span>) and chemical (<span style="color: #336600">?</span>) treatment.&nbsp; Again, YOC is a &quot;coin doctor.&quot;&nbsp; I like to consider that in many ways I am also. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>As I posted in another thread, I&#039;m going to test the presence of a silvered surface on the <span style="color: #59b300">green stuff</span> that I shall not name for fear of inciting riot.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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