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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 7525216, member: 24314"]eddiespin, posted: "<b>Who cares whether anything was "tooled?"</b> You're in abstract debate, now. Get your feet back on the ground. We don't want to see scratches. Can you get it off without scratching it? You have to pick away at it, you know that. No solution is going to get it off. Electrolysis, ultrasound, why don't you put it in a nuclear reactor and carefully bombard it with electrons for a couple weeks? Are you serious? If you want it off, give it a good soak in oil to loosen what it will, and get in there under magnification with a toothpick or some such thing and get to work on it, understanding the risk if you slip up. Or just let the doggone thing alone!"</p><p><br /></p><p>Great advice! I get to see the results of this every day. Folks selling coins need to find more collectors like this. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 7525216, member: 24314"]eddiespin, posted: "[B]Who cares whether anything was "tooled?"[/B] You're in abstract debate, now. Get your feet back on the ground. We don't want to see scratches. Can you get it off without scratching it? You have to pick away at it, you know that. No solution is going to get it off. Electrolysis, ultrasound, why don't you put it in a nuclear reactor and carefully bombard it with electrons for a couple weeks? Are you serious? If you want it off, give it a good soak in oil to loosen what it will, and get in there under magnification with a toothpick or some such thing and get to work on it, understanding the risk if you slip up. Or just let the doggone thing alone!" Great advice! I get to see the results of this every day. Folks selling coins need to find more collectors like this. ;)[/QUOTE]
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