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My new licinius I  I like jupiters hat, victory and the eagle on the reverse.  Sellers pic  Edited by jessvc1
05/24/2012 3:52 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Quite some difference between your photos and that of the seller. Nice pickup it looks like to me.
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Pillar of the Community
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Good eye jess, I never would of caught this one.
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Thanks I bought this for $2.55 I cleaned it a little. It's corroded and this is about the best I could do.
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Bedrock of the Community
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 Great pickup! It looks like your cleaning really improved the reverse  |
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it looked like it would turn out better but I'm glad to see how the reverse looks. I can't make out the mint mark but it looks like the last 2 letters HT or MF. I noticed on some of my coins Jupiter had a face but on a couple it just looked like dots. The dots are very clear on this reverse.
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05/24/2012 5:03 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Hi jessvc,
Looks like the same black crust on my coin's, nice job on cleaning them, may I ask how you cleaned them,?
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I cleaned this coin with a toothbrush and toothpicks with Lots of scrubbing. It was a greenish color but some of the metal started to show so I put some dellers darkener on it.
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Thanks jessvc1,
So using a dip is ok? Like on Large cents, covering open Bronze color or evening out the color of the whole coin/
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Pillar of the Community
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Depending on the condition of ancients, sometimes you have to clean them.
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On modern coins it's usually different, since they where minted not as long ago and there are usually a large amount of coins available in original color or not harshly cleaned, most modern coin collectors want a coin that is not artificially toned or cleaned. But reading the threads in the USA coin forum I think people buy more artificially toned/cleaned coins then they realize. For silver blast white is also a sign of being dipped. I collect ancients now but I did my experimenting with USA coins too just so I could spot the differences. I don't worry about those things as much now.
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You're right, jessvc1 => I don't always trust blast white coins ... I'd way rather see a nice rich, toned coin ... My favorite "modern coin" is my 1893 Canadian quarter (only 100,000 minted) ... I absolutely love the eye appeal of this coin (I may have shown this coin already? ... sorry if I did ... my memory is definitely goin' lately)   |
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Nice pickup, excellent price.
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Bedrock of the Community
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That's very nice Steve--I prefer toned silver anyday over blast-white. |
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Pillar of the Community
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That's a nice quarter I still have a few Canadian coins and bank of Canada/ dominion of Canada notes and fractionals.
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Thanks ... Yah, I personally think that Canadian money has been and still is some of the prettiest currency (sure, maybe I'm a bit prejudice, but I've also heard it from a few non-Canadians as well) ... => anyway ... this is an ancient thread, so I should probably just keep my opinions in my pipe and smoke 'em, eh?!!  |
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