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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 553065, member: 66&quot;]1793 dollars?&nbsp; From where?</p><p><br /></p><p>And your dealer friend is getting timelines and stories confused.&nbsp; Yes valuable early large cents have been re-engraved, retooled, recolored etc but for most of the higher grade pieces that were worked on that work took place back in the 19th century when the value of the coins was just a few dollars and such work was not frowned upon in the same way that it is today.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure few if any of them have managed to get into slabs other than ANACS problem holders or NCS slabs. (with the exception possibly of some of the recolored ones.)&nbsp; But many of them are held in major copper collections in places of honor.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;m sure the story about someone dying from drinking the solution is a corruption of the death of J Sanford Saltus, President of the British Numismatic Society and benefactor of the American Numismatic Society who died in his hotel room while cleaning coins with cyanide and accidently drinking it instead of his ginger ale.&nbsp; This happened in June of 1922.&nbsp; (Using cyanide to clean coins was a common practice back then.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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