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Message:: [QUOTE="RonSanderson, post: 2668352, member: 77413"]This newest acquisition was free, and that's a fair price, but its timing is the really interesting part. I was photographing some cents and had just photographed my 1978 Lincoln, shown here. It is about the ugliest cent I've seen, even if it is BU. [ATTACH=full]593550[/ATTACH] I took it down to the basement with a thought of removing some of the spots. After an acetone dip, I picked it up by the edges and started waving it around to dry it. It slipped. I watched it roll across the work table, off the edge, into the vise, rattle around between the jaws, then drop onto the edge of the rubber floor mat, shoot across the rough cement floor, and bang up against the wall all the way under the table. Profanity ensued. "Dang... Now where am I going to find another one of those?" Meanwhile, my wife had walked out to get the mail. I had just finished inventing new ways of swearing when she returned. She showed me a mailer from Audubon with a penny glued into a little window in the envelope. She asked "Well, do you think this is valuable?", as a joke. Responding in kind, I reached for the magnifying glass while she opened it up. I pried the coin off of the adhesive and took a look. Imagine my surprise! [ATTACH=full]593552[/ATTACH] There is still cartwheel luster and plenty of original color around all the devices.[/QUOTE]