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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 523179, member: 4552"]Way, way back to the original subject. At a coin show today I purchased a Mercury Dime, 1917S that looked like a proof. The notation on the 2x2 was PL. Asked what that was supposed to mean. Dealer said Proof Like. Yeah, right and that is why it was selling for about half of a MS grade. Got it for $10So now it too shall join my attempts to get rid of those polished appearances. Now soaking in Acetone, in a glass jar and to some people's wrong ideas of the Sun, it is in the Sun. Added this one to a few others also soaking in the Acetone. In another jar is a few 1943 Lincoln's that were obviously recoated and/or polished or waxed. Look like a proof too. All these will eventually go to the kitchen window sill since the ones there now are starting to appear to have lost that polished or overly shinny appearances. Way back I tried stupid things like placing in an over during the making of a pizza. Then with a pan of water. All failed and the coins ended up looking like I just dug them up in my yard. To bury one or two in the yard may well be next.The thing here is to remember that eventually those coins will still be considered cleaned, maybe. One dealer told me he has done similar to some coins and had them slabbed. Of course what people say and reality is sometimes not the same.[/QUOTE]