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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 4573914, member: 77413&quot;]I overpaid for this 1920-D from an online dealer who has provided me a number of coins that I like. This one, I didn&#039;t. It was too shiny in some spots, too dark around the rims, and downright ugly. I put it on my desk to send back, but I dithered too long and let the return period expire.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin lived in an old SEGS holder and looked both cleaned and tarnished. However, it had great sharpness that is really hard to find in this year&#039;s Denver production. Here is the vendor&#039;s photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1132457[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Close up, the area around the rims looked much worse. It was very dark and I worried that it was permanently stained, corroded, or terminally toned. Fortunately, terminal toning is associated more with silver than with copper, so I decided to see what I could do to make this coin acceptable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is what I started with. Again, these are vendor photos, which I rotated, cropped, and resized. (This is a vendor whose photos are actually very good.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1132461[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I started with the usual sequence of distilled water, then 100% acetone, then xylene. Then I used Verdicare. Verdicare has mild detergent properties, so I liberally put several drops on the surface, then soaked a cotton swab in it and started gently working it around the dirty rims and surface spots. (Be careful not to let the coin get dry, and make sure you don&#039;t pick up any grit that you rub around with the cotton!! You do not want to scratch it.) I gently removed any excess Verdicare and then did everything all over again. Here is the result.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1132466[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1132464[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1132465[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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