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I look at it more from the financial aspect. You had a ~$40 dollar coin, and now you have one worth melt ~$6 Probably a fair assumption - but we all have made mistakes while learning how to handle and work with coins, and frankly, a $40 coin isn't a bad idea to practice, make mistakes, and learn from - certainly much better than a $400 or a $4000 coin... Quote:
I figured I had nothing to lose with all those scratches showing up in the photos after the first cleaning. This is an important statement, and I think most of you are overlooking this. The owner knows the first cleaning brought out the scratches and acknowledges the coin has gone beyond the point of no return - so why not get the best bang for the buck, and learn more... Most importantly, this lesson is documented by being here. So in the future, if a new collector suggests cleaning a coin, you can point them to this thread, as an example. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Thank you... now I can start to enjoy this. The coin started as a G4-G6, so I don't think it was worth as high as $40, and I don't think it's only worth $6 now. I'll unbury it from the moist Irish peat in a few decades, and use it to pay for all of your grandchildren's college educations. ;) I'm more concerned about this coin (not the first one, but the one with the same year/mint that I posted later), which is going through accusations of counterfeitedness, partly by association, and partly by hard-to-read-well photography: http://goccf.com/t/337460 |
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I'm more concerned about this coin (not the first one, but the one with the same year/mint that I posted later), which is going through accusations of counterfeitedness, partly by association, and partly by hard-to-read-well photography:
This part of the problem. A communication problem. Try to only talk about the coin we are discussing in this thread and don't veer off topic. When you start mentioning other coins in other threads it just confuses everyone. |
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I'm half expecting an update post with the coin's surfaces sanded flat, at the rate this is going
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United States
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No, but I'm planning to put a moustache on Liberty with a permanent marker.
Now I have a better idea how the writers at Charlie Hebdo felt. If it makes you feel better, I will do 37 Hail Marys for desecrating a coin. And I'm not even Catholic.
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United States
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It was a good lesson without much cost. You take good pictures so in the future I recommend comparing your images side by side in between steps like this. The scratches in your second set of images were already on the coin, so all you did was remove dirt and at that point I would have just left it alone.
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United States
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Reintarnation?   Edited by Pauldog
02/04/2019 9:28 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What are you doing to darken it up?
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Valued Member
United States
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Mashed up hard boiled egg (good source of sulfur to make silver sulphate tarnish), then removing some excess with hot water, aluminum foil, and baking soda. Everything I've done is something I learned about recently as a newbie.
All I wanted to do was get rid of the cruddy stuff, but naturally there were side effects. Now I more or less have what I was looking for, but (as I also learned while doing) now the coin has "Details: monkeyed with."
The relative rarity of this coin said not to fool with it at all, but its condition made it tempting. I knew I didn't want it looking like the coins I had that must have been polished, maybe with a buffing wheel. Even knowing next to nothing about collecting, I saw those as unnatural, wrong. But I had bought all of them for bullion value long ago, including this one.
I'm keeping my paws off the silver dollars. :)
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02/06/2019 02:04 am
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United States
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I don't see any reason to mess with it. Not a particularly valuable coin especially with the engraving and scratches.
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United States
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The idea is that it's a good coin to learn on, because of its wear. Not much is at risk, but with a little tarnish, it's not bad-looking.
I'm learning that there's little I can do with almost any silver coin worth something that won't reduce its value.
Some of what I learn will be useful with other silver items.
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Judging from how some later tarnish experiments on other coins worked out, this one is quite nice, pretty much restoring the tarnish to what it was before I started, but now without the crud. (My impression from my limited experience is that a coin with a somewhat rougher surface will acquire a much more subtle tarnish than a smoother, shinier coin, which can get blotchier and show a lot more color, to the point where it hides the coin.) For its admittedly weak condition, the coin is now fairly attractive. I don't know what it might sell for. I'm thinking of listing it on ebay with full disclosure, and starting the bidding around $7-$10. I think it's a little above the category of mere space filler. I'm adding a better picture of the obverse, since the last one showed some camera shake.  Edited by Pauldog
02/06/2019 4:51 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The letters ED never stand for something good.
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United States
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I ended up getting over $18 on ebay, including shipping, which I consider a success under the circumstances. https://www.ebay.com/itm/273694598546Interesting that it was a week-long listing, but got no bids for the first five days. |
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