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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2783288, member: 74282&quot;]Might I suggest a different approach when deciding your next uncleaned coin purchase? Look for a smaller lot or single uncleaned coins with good detail showing, and be willing to spend a little more per coin. It&#039;s really hard to tell with coins that are mostly slugs whether your efforts are doing any good or not and most of the time if you can&#039;t see details up front they aren&#039;t there(with some exceptions). With coins that have some details showing, you&#039;re still running a risk that you&#039;ll either destroy the coin or that underneath the remaining dirt you&#039;ll find a corroded, ugly coin, but you&#039;ll at least know up front that it&#039;s not a completely worn down slug.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I look at an uncleaned or partially cleaned coin like this, a few things jump out at me. First, I can see in some areas like a 9 o&#039;clock on the obverse that the encrustation is layered and the metal underneath seems to be OK - that&#039;s a great sign. Additionally, I can still see some fine detail in the beard, the wreath and the eye that even under dirt seems to suggest the underlying metal is good and I don&#039;t see any signs that the coin is more brittle than usual(usually you will see places where silver has already broken off) nor do I see any evidence at this level of any pitting in the fields or anything like that. That gives me confidence that this one isn&#039;t a lost cause and will do well with further cleaning - there could still be some surprises but I at least know going into it that the odds are in my favor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before:[ATTACH=full]644451[/ATTACH]</p><p>After:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]644452[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s definitely scary as heck cleaning a coin like this your first time but much more rewarding than anything else I ever cleaned(or tried to) and I learned so much more than I did cleaning those lots of coins for about the same price overall(~$75).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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