Pencil marks on Peace dollars

Just bought a couple dozen common Peace and Morgan’s. A few of the Peace dollars have the number 110 penciled onto the front or back. One of these are high dollar coins, but still would like to remove the writing if possible. Any thoughts on how best to remove the pencil writing?

I know an eraser will take it off but also really make it look bad. I assume acetone won’t dissolve the graphite.

Thanks for the help.

 

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I would think if you used an eraser, or any item you have to rub, you can forget any value. Sorry about that and I do hope someone knows a way to rid the marks.

 

Maybe Verdi-Care would work, but I don't know for certain!

 

I do not know for sure, but this is an interesting topic. I am leaving a comment so I can see what someone who really knows has to say.

 

Water will float the graphite off, and it isn't pure graphite, it also contains clay as a binder...Google is your friend.

 

Could be distilled water. I want to see how this turns out too.

 

Try the commons first. H2O be a start

 

Spit worked but I pushed so hard with the pencil to make a test mark that the surface of my coin was scratched under the pencil mark!

 

I should have taken some before and after pics.....

Hot soap and water worked pretty well, particularly on the circulated coins. Pencil came off easily mostly with just a soak. The UNC/MS were harder to get right. Didn’t want to work the finger too hard and affect lusted. Plus as mentioned about on GEMish coins I think the pencil itself caused very minor breaks in luster.

overall went pretty good.

 

Agree. It was funny that the circ coins the pencil really just lifted right off. The UNC were much harder. Into them for melt so wasn’t too worried, more interested just to see how it goes. One of them was in the gem range was disappointing to see the writing on it.

 

Practice on the junk value ones first.

 

That's because the micro-surface of a circulated coin is different than a BU. The BU has more micro-crevices.

 

Great topic thank's Monitor

 

I, too, would like to see how it goes. A few coins my Dad gave me had some pencil marks. He never was into collecting for profit, though he had a few slabbed coins.

 

Why would anyone want to put a pencil mark on a coin anyway?

 

The same reason they write numbers on bills, to count them.

 

Thank you Collecting Nut but wouldn't there be a better way such as a tab, sticker, or even a washable marker?

 

Use an artists kneaded eraser. It is soft and moldable like play dough and you just press it down, no rubbing, to remove pencil marks.

 

You came through again Mountain Man thank you.