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<p>[QUOTE="GeorgeM, post: 8130045, member: 28550"]Picked up a few more "culls" to experiment on.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'll try to upload the full gallery of before pics later, but they were taken with a pretty lousy camera on my burner phone.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the dollars I soaked overnight was a 1925 Peace dollar someone had splashed red paint on the face of. Another is a 1904 Morgan with a strip of deteriorating (clear/now yellow) tape still adhered across the obverse. Soaking overnight in distilled water caused some tape to flake off, but otherwise did nothing to help either coin. I tried to pick the paint off with a toothpick and blotting with a bamboo towel, but no joy.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416138[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In less than 30 seconds of pure Acetone, the results on the 1925 Peace Dollar were pretty amazing:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416139[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GeorgeM, post: 8130045, member: 28550"]Picked up a few more "culls" to experiment on. I'll try to upload the full gallery of before pics later, but they were taken with a pretty lousy camera on my burner phone. One of the dollars I soaked overnight was a 1925 Peace dollar someone had splashed red paint on the face of. Another is a 1904 Morgan with a strip of deteriorating (clear/now yellow) tape still adhered across the obverse. Soaking overnight in distilled water caused some tape to flake off, but otherwise did nothing to help either coin. I tried to pick the paint off with a toothpick and blotting with a bamboo towel, but no joy. [ATTACH=full]1416138[/ATTACH] In less than 30 seconds of pure Acetone, the results on the 1925 Peace Dollar were pretty amazing: [ATTACH=full]1416139[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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