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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jillian, post: 3571309, member: 104446&quot;]I&#039;m not sure if there could have been issues with viewing my Google album with sample images of the apparent PVC damage, so here they are in a local site album: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/albums/pvc-damage.1498/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/albums/pvc-damage.1498/">https://www.cointalk.com/media/albums/pvc-damage.1498/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it is a big project!&nbsp; I was thinking of possibly beginning by just getting all the coins out of the current sheets.&nbsp; The sheets are extremely old, brittle, and falling apart, and if they do contain PVC it seemed wise to start by just getting the coins out of those sheets and into new, structurally sound sheets without PVC, and then going from there.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The trouble with trying to start with the most valuable coins first is that I am a total newbie to this and I have no idea which, if any, might hold a higher value than melt. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; You mentioned leaving the &quot;junk silver&quot; for last, but I&#039;d venture to say that most of what is in the sheets is, in fact, junk silver.&nbsp; Perhaps there could be some low mintage coins that could make them worth more, but that just means researching each coin one by one and still doesn&#039;t really give me a good place to begin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The collection does contain a few very old coins, one from the 1700s, an maybe 10 or so from the 1800s -- should I just consider those to the be higher value ones due to age?&nbsp; Or what about Mercury Dimes?&nbsp; I have a couple hundred of those in the collection, almost all in these disintegrating sheets, but I think in general they are just worth melt value except for some special cases. </p><p><br /></p><p>As I type this, I am beginning to wonder if I should create a list of the &quot;special&quot; coins in each category that I have (list of &quot;special&quot; Mercury Dimes, Morgan Dollars, etc.), then review the collection to search for any of those special items, process/protect those first, then determine what to do with the rest which may all be considered junk silver even in spite of being incredibly old in some cases.&nbsp; One caveat to this process is that perhaps I should practice the acetone process on some junk coins before working on any special ones that I identify -- wouldn&#039;t want my novice abilities causing issues as I learn by trial and error.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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