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Why are so many cents lacquered? Does this protect them or reduce their value?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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 Years ago many misinformed souls would lacquer their coppers coins to preserve their lustre in hopes of keeping their value high. However, we now know that was the wrong thing to do and we see many well known T.P.G. companies listing these comments on the Certificates as "lacquered". I personally stay away from these copper coins. I feel it is a negative comment and degrades the value and prestige of the coin, as would the comment cleaned would! Glenn  |
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Thanks Glenn, I suspected as much, I just wanted to be sure. It is sad isn't it?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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if you used acetone to remove the lacquer what would that do to them? is it obvious?
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 Canada
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Lacquer on coins was not 'wrong'. You can safely remove lacquer. In fact, a lot of the gem red large and George V small cents are only red today, because someone lacquered them at one time. Even the Royal Canadian Mint lacquered some of their coins in early specimen set releases. "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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Pillar of the Community
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An example of SPP's point. Lacquer removed and now in PCGS 66RB holder.  |
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Valued Member
Canada
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Very nice coin bosox...do you have a before picture with the lacquer still on the coin?
Wow, she looks great!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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No before pictures. The lacquer made it much darker and it had a cloudy appearance to it. Underneath I could tell it was the best NB cent I had ever seen. With the lacquer removed that assessment still stands. A dealer sold it to me raw for an MS-64 price at the 2010 RCNA convention, discounted since I was taking the risk about getting it into a TPG holder. |
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Canada
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Great eye then bosox. Wish I had delers in my area...I hae to buy coins online and dont get the opportunity to see them in hand. Thanks for the lacquered description.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Holy! That's one spectacular NB cent!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Nice coin bosox, and well said SPP. Another uninformed statement crashes and burns. This (lacquering) is/was one of the least intrusive methods of coin preservation. That is why coins like the example shown have survived. The educated collector should approach a lacquered coin (as bosox did) with close scrutiny (as with all coins) and not dismiss it. IMO
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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That is a very very nice NB coin!
Fact of the matter is, the coin was either cleaned or restored whichever way you want to look at it!
You can not argue that!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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like a blast white white 100 yr old silver? (chortle)
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Yep  Edited by darryldarryl
10/30/2011 4:25 pm
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Pick any Victorian denomination. If you collect at the 65 or higher level, you will find quite a lot of the coins at that level are not 100% original. Many have been "conserved" over the past 150 years. In the early days copper was lacquered to keep it red. Over the past twenty years, silver has been dipped because the TPG's tend to grade white silver higher and collectors generally like it better. Gold coins probably have the highest percentage of original coins, because gold is the most inert metal. When done correctly, it restores coins to very nearly their original appearance. All of the TPG's accept such conserved coins. For truly exceptional coins, I have seen PCGS holder them (with a grade; i.e. not in a "genuine" holder) with the lacquer still on them. What ever your opinion on whether such things consitute cleaning, or not, at the high end it is accepted as a fact of life. Without it, there would be a lot less MS-65, 66 and 67 Victorian coins in TPG holders. http://www.victoriancent.com2011 & 2025 Fred Bowman Award Winner, 2020 J. Douglas Ferguson Award Winner, & 2022 Paul Fiocca Award Winner. Life Member of RCNA.
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I do not dispute what you say bosox. Just stating that it has been cleaned or restored and that is also a fact of life.
It is a stunning looking coin. I wish I owned it!
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Posted 10/29/2011 04:36 am
