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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2914358, member: 24314&quot;]SuperDave, posted: &quot;Despite Doug&#039;s position, I don&#039;t buy the concept of &quot;end stage oxidation is destructive&quot; unless something other than a silver sulfide reaction is involved. Can you scrub it with your thumb and remove it? Yes. You can remove a few molecules of clean silver that way, too; you just don&#039;t see it until you&#039;ve altered the character of the surface. Can you reverse it, even in end stage, so that it&#039;s all silver again? Yes. Doesn&#039;t sound destructive to me.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> OMG! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie92" alt=":stop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Folks, each of us have specialties.&nbsp; Some here may be Large cent experts.&nbsp; Some my be coin &quot;doctors&quot; who get their work passed all the time as natural!&nbsp; The best house painter in the world may even post on CT.&nbsp; Others may be photographers.&nbsp; When a guy that can take a pretty image of a coin, starts to tell the expert painter what&#039;s going on, it is not only <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> it is like a destructive tin-pest corrosion eating away at the knowledge assembled by experts in their field.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=1892]@SuperDave[/USER]&nbsp; I should remind you and all of us posting here that, in the big picture, no one cares which concepts we accept and which we don&#039;t.&nbsp; The important thing is to know the actual, experimentally verifiable, facts. Here is one</p><p>I think MAY sum up Doug&#039;s position and mine:</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason someone &quot;coined&quot; the terms &quot;end stage oxidation&quot; is because that&#039;s what it is and it sounds much better than &quot;The surface of you coin has been terminally destroyed forever by corrosion and nothing can restore it!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In an attempt to prove his point, our <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> &quot;Ex-Pert&quot; poster proves he knows absolutely nothing about what &quot;end stage&quot; oxidation actually is:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">WARNING NOTHING IN THE FOLLOWING QUOTE <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> IS TRUE:&nbsp; </span></i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Can you scrub it with your thumb and remove it? Yes.&nbsp; You can remove a few molecules of clean silver that way, too; you just don&#039;t see it until you&#039;ve altered the character of the surface. Can you reverse it, even in end stage, so that it&#039;s all silver again? Yes. Doesn&#039;t sound destructive to me.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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