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Pillar of the Community
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A TPG would grade it Good, details. Not in collectable condition except as a hole filler. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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VG details (corroded or PMD) |
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Pillar of the Community
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There is enough detail on the gown and eagle's feathers to make VG-10 as the technical grade, but it's detailed because of the obverse gouges/pitting, as well as the gash on the eagle's left wing (our visual right).
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Bedrock of the Community
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This one arrived. Photos can be deceiving. Once again I removed all the dirt and grime on the surfaces with Vaseline. What looked like gouges and scratch turned out to be grime.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Looks like a completely different coin! Nice job on the conservation.  smat |
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I removed all the dirt and grime on the surfaces with Vaseline. That's a new one for me. How do you do it? |
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Pillar of the Community
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That's a new one for me. How do you do it? Is it just for Ag coins? smat |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I have used Vaseline to remove surface grime on both silver and copper coins since the early 1960's. learned the trick from an old time dealer in Hollywood CA. Works great on copper because it doesn't change the color, only removes the surface dirt.
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Pillar of the Community
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How about a step by step the way you do it?
I've got a couple I would practice on...
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Bedrock of the Community
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That's a new one for me. How do you do it? Rub Vaseline on the surface both sides with your fingers. Let it sit a couple minutes and wipe off with a soft cloth. It make take several times doing that to get all the dirt loosened. It does not remove corrosion, only grime. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I better add, don't forget the final step of a bath in pure Acetone to remove any oil left on the surfaces.
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IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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