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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2651323, member: 1892"]First round of work with the Verdi-Care. I shot this quick and dirty, without much attention to "presentation" appearance (the detail pics are merely 100% crops of the first image, which is forced to half-size for posting here):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]586617[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]586618[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]586619[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]586620[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]586621[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>First takeaway - Verdi-Care <b>works</b>. I did very little mechanical work, a little with hawthorn (every bit as tough and sharp as Bill said), and a little with Q-tips. Half an hour's contact with the stuff, total, and there's nothing left on the coin I'd characterize as "green" any longer. This has isolated the places which <b>do</b> need detailed attention, and that's the next step.</p><p><br /></p><p>At this point, I don't believe this coin is a candidate for "complete removal." We'll get most of it, and preserve it for the future, but there are a couple places I think the damage is permanent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2651323, member: 1892"]First round of work with the Verdi-Care. I shot this quick and dirty, without much attention to "presentation" appearance (the detail pics are merely 100% crops of the first image, which is forced to half-size for posting here): [ATTACH=full]586617[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]586618[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]586619[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]586620[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]586621[/ATTACH] First takeaway - Verdi-Care [B]works[/B]. I did very little mechanical work, a little with hawthorn (every bit as tough and sharp as Bill said), and a little with Q-tips. Half an hour's contact with the stuff, total, and there's nothing left on the coin I'd characterize as "green" any longer. This has isolated the places which [B]do[/B] need detailed attention, and that's the next step. At this point, I don't believe this coin is a candidate for "complete removal." We'll get most of it, and preserve it for the future, but there are a couple places I think the damage is permanent.[/QUOTE]
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