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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2990711, member: 112&quot;]Insider is saying a lot with what he has said, but based on the comments of others I&#039;m not sure that some actually realize what it is that he is saying. So I&#039;m going to try and put it a different way - same thing he&#039;s saying, just in a different way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Carbon spots is, in today&#039;s world, is a generic term and it is usually used when talking any and all dark spots on coins. And that&#039;s the thing, there are a great many different kinds of dark spots ! And in simplest terms some of them can be safely removed but a great many of them cannot be removed without damaging the coin !</p><p><br /></p><p>The trick is in being able to identify which ones can be safely removed and which ones can&#039;t be removed. And that is often a very difficult thing to do !</p><p><br /></p><p>Part of the problem is some spots are &quot;on&quot; the coin, and some spots are &quot;in&quot; the coin. Those that are in the coin, well just give up because they aint comin off ! Those on the coin, well they might or they might not. And even among those that do come off, sometimes the coin is damaged underneath, not by what you used to remove them, but by the spots themselves because they corroded the underlying metal. And then there are also those that come off, but leave a lighter colored spot where the dark colored spot was. Net effect - it&#039;s just as bad as it was before.</p><p><br /></p><p>So given all of this - what&#039;s a guy to do ? Well, my suggestion has pretty much always been the same. If you have a coin with spots on it and you don&#039;t like the spots - then sell the coin and buy another one that does not have the spots. Just that easy - and it works, every single time<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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