I'm going to try to conserve this coin.

This coin has some issues... obviously. It looks to have some rim damage on the reverse so I'm not going to hurt it any more then it is. I paid a little less then melt for it so if I screw it up... no loss for me. I just wanted to see if I could make this coin look any better. I'm not so worried about the brown as I think some schmuck put nitric acid on it. Looking more at the green residue.



I did what I do first with most coins with issues and have put it in a bath of pure acetone. I'm going to let it soak till this afternoon and pull it out and take some pictures.

 

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It is(was?) beautiful! Can't wait to see the after pics.

 

That green stuff almost looks like a rather large tattoo on the young thing.......

I await the update and report on your progress.

 

That is a very interesting pattern for the green. It almost looks like shes wearing a designer shirt. I have a feeling the acetone isn't going to do much. But a quick dip would certainly help it out.

 

It actually looks like someone put a drop or two of some type of liquid adhesive on it for mounting, and when it was pressed down, the adhesive spread out in a random pattern.

Chris

 

It's either glue or chemically melted plastic. Either way acetone would be my first course of action for either.

 

Ahh. I thought it was PVC slime. Good luck. Looking forward to seeing how the conserving goes.

 

I hope it works, but good or bad, I'd still like to see the "After" photos.

Chris

 

Here is after 2 hours in acetone. Back in for another soak.

 

after looking at it a little more I decided to bypass the second acetone soak for now and did what I call an extended dip. Using dip I left this piece in for around 30-40 seconds... (GASP I know)

results:



Now back to the acetone.

 

It's beginning to look a lot better! Just don't dissolve her slip.

Chris

 

Another acetone bath and extended dip shows little to no change. That's as good as this one is going to get.

Before:

After:

 

Before:


After:

 

Wow Matt. That worked pretty darned well!

 

With that big gouge out of the reverse it's kind of a lost cause it seems.

 

That's where someone filed into it before dropping nitric acid on it to make sure it was silver (not my shop). It was more of a test to see how much better I could make this guy look. I knew it wouldn't come back totally.

 

Here is another coin from the same set I'm going to conserve.
Before:

 

Dust the rev. for prints to find this jackninny what ruind this B E A utiful set.

 

Got most of it... Another extended acetone soak should get the rest of it.

 

Nice work looks great!