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<p>[QUOTE="TylerH, post: 3182266, member: 97181"]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>This is kind of a silly stupid question but I had this morgan in my sell for melt pile, and after reading about lowball collecting today I thought "Hmm - that one at home looks pretty close to Poor 01 quality, maybe someone would actually want it vs going to the melt bin.</p><p><br /></p><p>ANyhow, I get home to check it out and like a few other "melt" morgans it was covered in what I thought was PVC residue, but it was like black and tar like - and my hands felt disgusting after touching it - So I did a acetone soak and gently rolled a Q Tip across it, and it started coming off but now the coin under is like shiny. Not like proof shiny but it looks good - Like someone polished it 40 years ago and covered it with goo to protect it.. haha</p><p><br /></p><p>The history of this is my grandma started hoarding silver change in the late 60s / early 70s, and she must have gotten this in change and kept it. It has a sincere 70 years of circulating look to it. </p><p><br /></p><p>What do you think? What could that stuff have been?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]820208[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]820209[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TylerH, post: 3182266, member: 97181"]Hi All, This is kind of a silly stupid question but I had this morgan in my sell for melt pile, and after reading about lowball collecting today I thought "Hmm - that one at home looks pretty close to Poor 01 quality, maybe someone would actually want it vs going to the melt bin. ANyhow, I get home to check it out and like a few other "melt" morgans it was covered in what I thought was PVC residue, but it was like black and tar like - and my hands felt disgusting after touching it - So I did a acetone soak and gently rolled a Q Tip across it, and it started coming off but now the coin under is like shiny. Not like proof shiny but it looks good - Like someone polished it 40 years ago and covered it with goo to protect it.. haha The history of this is my grandma started hoarding silver change in the late 60s / early 70s, and she must have gotten this in change and kept it. It has a sincere 70 years of circulating look to it. What do you think? What could that stuff have been? [ATTACH=full]820208[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]820209[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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