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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 4537130, member: 77413&quot;]A 1959 Franklin Proof. Someone was not sufficiently careful when handling the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1123391[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: [USER=75914]@thomas mozzillo[/USER] and [USER=19250]@Paddy54[/USER] - you are not wrong. The reverse was covered in finger prints. Although I held out no hope for fixing that, I went through the regimen of swishing it in acetone, distilled water, xylene, and then acetone again. Here are the before and after results on the reverse. These photos are the same lighting, exposure, and position.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Before</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1123505[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>After</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1123506[/ATTACH] </b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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