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<p>[QUOTE="mrjason71, post: 2991666, member: 90347"]Wow. How easy it would be to keep this to yourself. To take the time to sit and put that together in that kind of detail for your fellow anonymous coin enthusiasts is just amazingly noble of you and I wish I could tell you how much I appreciate your generosity of information and experience. Thanks for replying. Hopefully those in the future who seek to be rid of these horrid spots will find your words before they deface a 100 more coins with experimentation. </p><p><br /></p><p>I spent a few hours one day ripping various sized magic markers apart--pulling the ink absorbing cores out of them and running water through them until they were "clean" of ink. (I later realized you could buy these without ink in them!) It seemed to me that these would be the perfect implements to "erase" these spots with some unknown chemical applied to the tip if the chemical would not eat away the point of the marker. I put a little Brasso on the tip of the marker and found great control in abrasively "scratching" the spots out. I was left with such a God awful clean spot that I just abandoned the whole approach. This was probably the 20th such experiment. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again for the guidance. Off to the hardware store![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mrjason71, post: 2991666, member: 90347"]Wow. How easy it would be to keep this to yourself. To take the time to sit and put that together in that kind of detail for your fellow anonymous coin enthusiasts is just amazingly noble of you and I wish I could tell you how much I appreciate your generosity of information and experience. Thanks for replying. Hopefully those in the future who seek to be rid of these horrid spots will find your words before they deface a 100 more coins with experimentation. I spent a few hours one day ripping various sized magic markers apart--pulling the ink absorbing cores out of them and running water through them until they were "clean" of ink. (I later realized you could buy these without ink in them!) It seemed to me that these would be the perfect implements to "erase" these spots with some unknown chemical applied to the tip if the chemical would not eat away the point of the marker. I put a little Brasso on the tip of the marker and found great control in abrasively "scratching" the spots out. I was left with such a God awful clean spot that I just abandoned the whole approach. This was probably the 20th such experiment. Thanks again for the guidance. Off to the hardware store![/QUOTE]
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