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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 507886, member: 112"]Yes the weights are low, way low. And yes salt water can do that. But it was also the cleaning methods that Mel Fisher and his group used - work done in body shops is less harsh than what they did.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the grades, they are meaningless. They had no idea how to grade coins and so they made their own scale. Basically it ran from 1 to 4 with 1 being the best and 4 the worst. A 4 coin from them is barely recognizable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 507886, member: 112"]Yes the weights are low, way low. And yes salt water can do that. But it was also the cleaning methods that Mel Fisher and his group used - work done in body shops is less harsh than what they did. As for the grades, they are meaningless. They had no idea how to grade coins and so they made their own scale. Basically it ran from 1 to 4 with 1 being the best and 4 the worst. A 4 coin from them is barely recognizable.[/QUOTE]
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