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I'm pretty fearless about in-home conservation, but....not this one. That is one well-struck 20c.
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Bedrock of the Community
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This one is probably worth getting professionally conserved
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Pillar of the Community
United States
898 Posts |
This is a beauty. Incredible reverse. Get it professionally conserved like others have said.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Learned something in this thread. My initial reaction was, "Sure, give it a bath, why not." I would have been wrong. Pays to ask first.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would send it to ANACS. Very inexpensive. You could probably get it graded and conserved for about $40.00, not including shipping. Well worth it.
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Learned something in this thread. My initial reaction was, "Sure, give it a bath, why not." I would have been wrong. Pays to ask first.
I know exactly what to do about this coin, to include what to do if the initial work is of less quality than I hoped. I would handle the job with confidence. But we always have to consider our greater responsibility to the history we're protecting here. This one's a little too important in the grand scheme of things for me to advise in good faith that someone do it non-professionally. If it were my coin, the conservation would already be done. You would never have seen nor heard of it in this condition, and I wouldn't have mentioned the conservation as long as the result was appropriate ("appropriate" meaning a result experts would consider appropriate). If I'd screwed it up, you would have heard the whole story as a cautionary tale, me washing the keyboard with tears as I typed it out. Don't be that guy. I can't recommend ANACS for this one, either. Two reasons: First, their lower valuation in the marketplace and second, they haven't been doing conservations for long. I haven't seen enough of their conserved coins - as I have PCGS and NGC - to form an opinion of their skills. |
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You guys have brought up some good points. If this were a cheaper coin I would have done the acetone bath without even mentioning it. I was tempted with this one but kept dragging my feet. That's why I tossed the question out here to help sway my thinking. I'll most likely take the NGC route and have them conserve and grade this one. I would love to see it get an MS grade but my gut tells me it's high AU. At least that's how I bought it.
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Send it to ANACS you will not only save money but will be pleasantly surprised. One thing is based on what is happening right now ANACS is by far the most conservative of the three so called major TPG. The last two lots I have had back from ANACS have been very well graded , read conservative! Also if you are buying the coin and not the holder it will not be an issue. Edited by Pacificoin
04/27/2015 12:23 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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There still is the thinking ANACS is number three on the TPG scale, compared to PCGS and NGC. I think for resale the big two will still return a better price than one in an ANACS holder. I may be wrong, but right now I am leaning towards NGC. I do currently own this coin and want to get the max I can when (if) I decide to sell it. I have owned many 20c coins, but none with the detail this piece has. |
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I'm agreeing with you on NGC. The Big Two have gone haywire over grading the last couple years, but I'm seeing the more consistent and acceptable results in NGC plastic these days. Now if only they could employ people on the administrative end who knew what a coin was....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Beautiful coin! I will be needing one of those someday for my 7070.. Doubt it will look as good as that one!
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Moderator
United States
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I just filled that hole last year. Mine is a few pegs below this one.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
11922 Posts |
It looks MS to me. MS-63.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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So what did you decide to do with the coin?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agree with SuperDdave completely. Nix on ANACS. Let NGC have a look and you'll probably end up with it in a much better holder.
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Posted 04/26/2015 7:07 pm
