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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 18250780, member: 104064&quot;]I&#039;m impressed with the conservation. I&#039;ll attempt to take pictures when there&#039;s natural light available. For some it&#039;s hard to believe it&#039;s the same coin. Some of the &quot;personality&quot; seems lost, but it&#039;s probably mostly the sterile feeling that comes with seeing them in slabs. </p><p><br /></p><p>One of the interesting things, that I hope to capture in images, is the specimen 1947 ML CR 50c mentioned earlier, with the lacquer they hoped to remove. I had studied this coin for hours, and something was different now that I couldn&#039;t quite put my finger on. Then I realized that a bunch of tiny strike-through features, one even with an embedded bit of bristle or wire that I presumed was from polishing the dies, are <i>gone</i>! Previously I couldn&#039;t even tell that there was lacquer on it at all, and now as it turns out it appears that what I thought were strike-through features into the coin&#039;s surface were actually in the lacquer. More to come...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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