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1974 Quarter/ Mercury Dime

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 Posted 04/13/2025  6:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Error-Eric to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Is there a too long in acetone? Like a hour?
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 Posted 04/13/2025  7:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cujohn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
to the CCF No. Acetone will not affect the coin in any way. I've left them in for over 24 hrs. before. Looks like Pareidolia.
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 Posted 04/13/2025  8:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Error-Eric to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Beats me. But the dime is starting to come clear now along with the the torch on back. That is a torch ax right?
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 Posted 04/14/2025  12:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Error-Eric to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
this black stuff isn't coming off. its been like 4 hrs and no change. any suggestions? The pics are in the acetone so there not as clear heads up




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 Posted 04/14/2025  12:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Error-Eric to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks jbuck
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 Posted 04/14/2025  5:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tacc to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Worth mentioning Pareidolia here, again.
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 Posted 04/15/2025  6:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cujohn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sometimes there is no way to remove stains from coins. If acetone doesn't do it, maybe water will. If that doesn't do it, I'd just chalk it up to Pareidolia. There is just no way that a 1974 quarter can be muled with a dime that was minted 30 years earlier.
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 Posted 04/15/2025  6:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Error-Eric to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here's what I don't get. It tests silver with my test acid and stone.
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 Posted 04/15/2025  7:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add halfamind to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not to beat a dead horse, but a weight would be useful here — should be about 5.7 grams for a 1974 quarter.
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 Posted 04/15/2025  11:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Error-Eric to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It's 6. But I gave into what I heard about it being my eyes and tried a harsher cleaner and a big chunk of it can off. Kinda ticked at myself for doubting myself.
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If a chunk came off, then it was plated or coated with something. I don't think you did any harm.
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agreed, you probably just loosened up the possible plating that was added to the coin after it led the mint.
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