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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 8180490, member: 112"]There are no milk spots on that coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Milk spots have a very specific look and are easily identified once one knows what they look like. That said, there are a lot of folks who do not know what real milk spots look like and mistakenly refer to just about any light colored spot as a milk spot, when it isn't a milk spot at all. It's a fairly common mistake, and very similar to another common mistake where any dark colored spot is often referred to as a carbon spot when it isn't a carbon spot at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what real milk spots look like.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430107[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The pics aren't the best but what I have at hand at the moment. Typically they show up as being very white. And they are not spots <b>on</b> the surface of the coin, they are spots <b>in</b> the surface of the coin, in the metal itself in other words - and thus incapable of being removed without damaging the the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 8180490, member: 112"]There are no milk spots on that coin. Milk spots have a very specific look and are easily identified once one knows what they look like. That said, there are a lot of folks who do not know what real milk spots look like and mistakenly refer to just about any light colored spot as a milk spot, when it isn't a milk spot at all. It's a fairly common mistake, and very similar to another common mistake where any dark colored spot is often referred to as a carbon spot when it isn't a carbon spot at all. This is what real milk spots look like. [ATTACH=full]1430107[/ATTACH] The pics aren't the best but what I have at hand at the moment. Typically they show up as being very white. And they are not spots [B]on[/B] the surface of the coin, they are spots [B]in[/B] the surface of the coin, in the metal itself in other words - and thus incapable of being removed without damaging the the coin.[/QUOTE]
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