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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This is not my coin, but occasionally I see coins with this color. Looks like they're made out of chocolate, almost, or painted with brown paint. What is this? I've run across some coins that were otherwise pretty nice, but the color was way too "off" for me to consider them. Curious as to comments on this.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
930 Posts |
May have been cleaned some time ago.
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Pillar of the Community
Topic StarterUnited States
591 Posts |
Cleaned with what - gasoline? Just looks really wrong to me.
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Pillar of the Community
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4236 Posts |
Who knows what color lurks in the heart of cents? The copper knows. Muuuhahahahahahah.  ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10562 Posts |
Possibly lacquered at some point.
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Valued Member
United States
426 Posts |
As everyone else has said, it just looks off.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
15263 Posts |
AU details (re-colored and/or lacquered)
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Pillar of the Community
Topic StarterUnited States
591 Posts |
Interesting - never considered lacquer. But, like I said, the coin looks like it's been painted with something. It's amazing what people have done to make a coin look "better" and completely wrecked them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pine tree coin and jewelry are as honest as the day is long. Used to yak with them a lot. They get a weird color to their coins because they use a blue background. They've muted their blue a little bit, used to be really orange looking Indians.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Are you referring to the rust color outside of the wreath on reverse mostly?
Other than that weird rust coloring, this coin looks like a Verdi-Care result.
It has that lacquer look.
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Edited by NumismaticsFTW
05/29/2023 9:44 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2904 Posts |
This coin's color is the result of a cleaning product such as blue ribbon or veridicare not being removed entirely. Makes the coin look greasy, and you can clearly see the green material is thoroughly soaked.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How is someone supposed to remove verdi-care after use?
I read on our forum it will always have that lacquer look.
Is it recommended to actually use a microfiber towel and wipe, because I don't like doing that.
I remember someone saying acetone after Verdi-care isn't good either.
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You realize when you know how to think, it empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Edited by NumismaticsFTW
05/30/2023 12:19 am
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United States
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Not too sure about this coin but one of the reasons I love old copper, is it can take on many colors from light orange to dark chocolate. Time and environment the coin is/was in can determine the color of the copper.
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Pillar of the Community
Topic StarterUnited States
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I've started experimenting with Verdi-care, NumismaticsFTW, and I'm not getting this result at all. I'm starting to believe the lacquer theory. I wouldn't buy a coin that looked like this - just wondering how this happens. Not the first one I've seen like this, but this is one of the worst.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I saw this product for sale recently - Nic-A-Tone Cent Toner, and wondered why anyone would want such a thing. Evidently to cover something up. Perhaps this or a similar product was used on that IHC.  Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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why anyone would want such a thing you got it... probably to cover up a cleaning to sell to an unsuspecting newbie
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Posted 05/28/2023 5:55 pm
