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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 24195830, member: 19250&quot;]Since no others showed up for class...lol</p><p>Let me teach a student whom wishes to learn.</p><p>The coin is a nicely struck specimen.&nbsp; The color and fields are nice ,pretty clean as far as dings....etc.</p><p>And you hit the nail on its head....</p><p>CARBON SPOTS! Those little black spots that tend to leach out of the coin surface.</p><p>They can not be stopped, they can not be removed, as acetone turns them brown , and they like Douglas MacArthur will and did return....RUN fast Forest... from any nickel or coin that has even 1! </p><p>That nickel is trashed. It will only get worse over time,and this can happen anytime on a nickel ...From the coin press to 100 years later. </p><p>I am clueless why ,and how this happens...but again if you see 1 there will be more, it can happen to&nbsp; a raw or slabed....coin.</p><p>As a nickel collector this I have found on all&nbsp; ickel copper coins.</p><p>And heres the kick in the butt... you could buy a specimen like the second one I posted....so nice....And then one day ....bingo there&#039;s a major problem the size of a pin head.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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