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<p>[QUOTE="Danjohnson, post: 2866269, member: 80228"][ATTACH=full]683759[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]683760[/ATTACH] I've done worse and paid to have problem coins I've found, slabbed. Silver does good in the ground but copper? fugetaboutit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sent in this 1909 S, VDB and they wouldn't grade it without sending it in for conservation. It didn't look too bad beforehand because I'd let it soak in olive oil to try and clean it up. Came back dry, ugly and just plain hard to look at. (lol)</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm tempted to bust it out, oil it down again, and stick it in a Whitman coin album. Only reason I haven't, is because it cost me $60.00 to have it conserved and slabbed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Danjohnson, post: 2866269, member: 80228"][ATTACH=full]683759[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]683760[/ATTACH] I've done worse and paid to have problem coins I've found, slabbed. Silver does good in the ground but copper? fugetaboutit. Sent in this 1909 S, VDB and they wouldn't grade it without sending it in for conservation. It didn't look too bad beforehand because I'd let it soak in olive oil to try and clean it up. Came back dry, ugly and just plain hard to look at. (lol) I'm tempted to bust it out, oil it down again, and stick it in a Whitman coin album. Only reason I haven't, is because it cost me $60.00 to have it conserved and slabbed.[/QUOTE]
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