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 Posted 01/01/2012  9:34 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add erkle to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
it is one from the fire, I dont know if the fire has burnt layers away from the copper or if something has melted onto it, I tried to clean it the same way as another that was covered in rubber/plastic type stuff but it still has what seems to be a coating over it? over all the penny, any ideas if its now metal damage or still layered with something, under the loupe it looks layered.
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 Posted 01/02/2012  12:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like fire corrosion to me, where the temperature wasn't high enough to actually melt the copper, but did cause accelerated (and very patchy) corrosion, probably form coming into contact with hot ashes or other objects. The greenish spots are telling me the metal itself is definitely reacting with something, forming corrosion products.
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 Posted 01/02/2012  12:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add trout1105 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yeah erkle it's buggered,
The fire would have made it cherry red and it has accepted all the other stuff into the surface that was around it at the time.
Will make a nice pocket peice
And look at it every start of the fire season to remind you to clean out the gutters and do the fire breaks
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Hot weather sucks, we had 42 today!
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 Posted 01/02/2012  01:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add erkle to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
shame really, a coin for the pocket could be the go.
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