I though it would be fun to show off some of our favourite “ugly” coins they may be a low grade they may be detail but they have a “cool factor “ may it a low mintage may its a fun story 1857-S cleaned $2.5 for melt in 2008 . Lower mintage and pre-civil and my first gold Edited: to crop the picture
To my eyes, that coin is by no means ugly; just well worn from commerce and enjoying a well-deserved retirement in your collection!
When medieval is your center of gravity, "ugly but interesting" starts to look almost like the default mode. (...Along the lines of, 'I can talk that way about Mom; just that you can't!') Anyway, yours looks Just Fine from here!
The three English kings who ruled from 1087 until 1154 made the worst coins in British history. William II was the son of William the Conqueror, who founded the modern British monarchy in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings. William the Conqueror's coins were pretty decent for their time. Here a William the conquorer penny. This is actualy pretty decent for a William II penny despite the fact that the obverse die was broken. This William II coin is a "WOW!!!" Henry I was William II's younger brother. When Henry I's daddy was splitting up his assets, Henry got money, but no kingdom. He "arranged" a hunting accident in which his brother, William II, was killed. Henry I's coins were the worst ever. This one is mostly held together by the Cointain. Things got so bad that people were testing the coins by cutting little pieces out of them to see if they were genuine. Henry's response to that was to cut little pieces out of them at the mint called "snicks" before they were issued. Stephen was Henry I's nephew. He had no right to the crown, but since Henry I's only surviving child was a woman, he took advantage of that. Women were not supposed to rule countries at that time. Her name was Matilda. Her coins were worse than Stephen's coins and are virtually impossible to obtain. One dealer told me he regretted selling one he owned 30 years ago that was held together by museum glue. * This is a very nice example of a Stephen penny. There you go ... three ugly coins ... I hope that they were interesting. * Another story about Matilda coins. A London based dealer told me that a Canadian citizen tried to send him a Matilda coin. When it arrived, it was in something like 30 pieces and was worthless.
You still might be able to get the PVC off without leaving too much of a mark. I did it with some very scarce Lincoln political tokens that I bought in an auction. The owner had bought them in an auction years ago and never taken them out of the auction flips. I took them out, removed the green, and got lucky. There were no problems, and the tokens are still nice today.
I dipped it once got some of it off but imma wait for my day off work and imma spend some time on it but im not optimistic about not hurtin it. I got it fir a buck so aint to much of a hit if I just scrub it
You use acetone or something like that which disolves the stuff. You need to avoid doing anything "physical."
The major stuff in the cracks wont disolve ive tried dipping it. Id rather a coin with abraision than a light grey cleaned. Ill probs just get a tooth pick and work on it gently.
