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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 64953, member: 708&quot;]In my view verdigris simply has to come off... the faster the better. Either way it&#039;s a damaged coin, i don&#039;t like dipping coins in things so much or even bringing them near chemicals or water as it can aggrevate matters because a &#039;dipped&#039; coin affecting the lustre is worse than a scratched one in my opinion. Think about how it will look on a dealers list when selling &quot;VF light/deep scratch on obverse&quot;, &quot;VF cleaned&quot;...</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d rather take the fingernail approach. A bit of a crude method but it&#039;s effective if you don&#039;t apply too much pressure and if the verdigris is the &#039;crusty&#039; type localised somewhere and not in the legends, if it&#039;s imbedded itself in the legends you might as well call it a day before you start. If you&#039;ve got speckled, light spots of verdigris everwhere then i&#039;d just give up and call it a scrapper.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Verdigris is something i learned to fear from being very young, my father always said &quot;if it&#039;s got verdigris it&#039;s junk&quot;, so one speck of it anywhere and the coin is on my &#039;keep an eye on it&#039; list. I try and remove it in it&#039;s early stages, if it is removed clean and shows no sign of coming back then i&#039;ll keep the coin. If it looks as if it can&#039;t be removed easily or it comes back then i ditch the coin as fast as i can. Which is the reason i tend to avoid copper and low purity silver coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think in the last few years i&#039;ve only had one coin that had a verdigris spot and i took it off with a fingernail (as i mentioned above), it left a slight scratch and a slight dig where the verdigris had slightly marred the surface. But when i sold the coin i got a decent price for it so my approach can&#039;t have been all that wrong. If i had try some chemical method the dark pencil lead grey tone of the coin would have been affected and it would have been sold as an altered cull.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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