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Thinking About Pulling The Trigger: Flowing Hair Dollar

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 Posted 08/04/2015  12:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jpbone to your friends list
The coin is nice. The price is high. I echo SsuperDdave, those are scratches, not adjustment marks. I don't think the scratches warrant a details grade on this coin though. Good luck in your search!
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 Posted 08/04/2015  12:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Aahz to your friends list
SsuperDdave beat me to it - adjustment marks won't be curved. Think of how a file works - it makes straight, parallel grooves. These are scratches.
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 Posted 08/04/2015  12:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mlov to your friends list
Thanks for all of the comments.

I had the impression that the scratches on the obverse, and some on the reverse (you can see it if you follow the link) were adjustment marks, too.

Yes, it's a lot to plunk down on a coin...

If you ran this through an acetone or xylene bath, wouldn't the sniffer catch it?

And if I didn't follow the rules(?) ...well, I think you'll get over it, whoever you are.
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 Posted 08/04/2015  2:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TypeCoin971793 to your friends list
@SsuperDdave

The poster was subtly advertizing a coin for sale.
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 Posted 08/04/2015  4:05 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add westcoin to your friends list
I like it at around $1950-2250 not at the asking price however.


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It's a dollar, not a half, DoubleEagle20


Opps, I priced it from a half dollar point of view too! More like $2200-3100 Sorry about the mix-up.
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See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440
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 Posted 08/04/2015  6:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TypeCoin971793 to your friends list
It's a dollar, not a half, DoubleEagle20.
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 Posted 08/04/2015  6:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DoubleEagle20 to your friends list
My bad, posting deleted.
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 Posted 08/04/2015  7:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add moxking to your friends list
What did I miss Typecoin? Half Double Eagle?

I must have missed the reference somewhere. It sure looks like a dollar to me.
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 Posted 08/04/2015  9:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Captain Jack to your friends list
@Typecoin

How is he supposed to ask an opinion about it if he can't post a link?
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 Posted 08/04/2015  9:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cascade to your friends list

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@SsuperDdave The poster was subtly advertizing a coin for sale.


I think he was being rhetorical
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 Posted 08/04/2015  10:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TypeCoin971793 to your friends list
I posted the link in the post following that comment and put it in a different context.
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 Posted 08/05/2015  12:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CalzoneManiac to your friends list
Now I'm curious. By "xylene bath" what type of xylene? There is ortho-xylene (1,2-dimethylbenzene), meta-xylene (1,3-dimethylbenzene), and para-xylene (1,4-dimethylbenzene).
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Good question. Theoretically, the least polar of the 3 xylene isomers would be most effective in removing residues from metal surfaces.
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 Posted 08/06/2015  12:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add edweather to your friends list
Not to go too sideways with the thread, here's a link to the Xylene Home Depot sells.

http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pd...5968ab1f.pdf

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 Posted 08/06/2015  1:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list

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By "xylene bath" what type of xylene?


For our purposes (understanding I'm not a chemist), xylene is favored because of its' polarity, a solvent benign to metals while having polarity at a contrast to that of acetone - depending on what's to be removed from the coin, one might desire a polar or non-polar solvent.

So, without anything resembling actual knowledge (), I'd think whichever xylene compound had the highest contrast with acetone on the polarity index, if there's a significant difference.

Can you tell I'm stumbling around on a topic I probably shouldn't be?
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