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Posted 05/16/2021 12:50 am
Cool coin! You might not have gotten it for $20 if I had seen it first!
Right or wrong, I have a little different thought on the acetone. When I buy coins that may have been handled by someone at an auction company who was clueless or just didn't care, I do a quick acetone dip and pat dry (no side-to-side motion) with soft cotton just because I don't want to find fingerprints later, after they have etched their way into prominence and permanence because someone was chomping on French fries while sticking the coins in flips. If you don't think the coin is otherwise contaminated, then I would just hit it with compressed air, like others said. I even do that to the holders, too, to get rid of lint or dust. Yes. I am paranoid.
Right or wrong, I have a little different thought on the acetone. When I buy coins that may have been handled by someone at an auction company who was clueless or just didn't care, I do a quick acetone dip and pat dry (no side-to-side motion) with soft cotton just because I don't want to find fingerprints later, after they have etched their way into prominence and permanence because someone was chomping on French fries while sticking the coins in flips. If you don't think the coin is otherwise contaminated, then I would just hit it with compressed air, like others said. I even do that to the holders, too, to get rid of lint or dust. Yes. I am paranoid.
