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How To Remove Strong Black "Stuff" On Ikes

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 Posted 01/26/2015  9:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BadToTheBone to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Proofs ....interesting...May I ask how did it happen or did you acquire them discounted?
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 Posted 01/26/2015  9:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CENTertainment to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Found that way at the bank that way. Will post pics in a couple days.
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Well you got them for cost....I say experiment then.
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Oh yes if silver you made money at melt!
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This is one of the 2 IKEs in question with this thread.

This coin has been ABUSED and is not issue free. Looks like some one put a grinder or power polisher on both sides, when I got it, in a BAG.

2 weeks of ACETONE and eraser work did remove most of the black stuff.

Will photo, and post the other (better) IKE asap.

Thanks for all patients.




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This is the other coin. Better of the two. The other coin was abused, molested, big time.

The 2 week ACETONE did about all it could with the black stuff on both of them.






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 Posted 02/13/2015  11:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add shadz to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The way the obverses are worn around the rim mostly looks like they were ground or smoothed down to go into custom belt buckles back in the 70s. The bevel of the first one above looks like it was made to just fit into the bezel of the buckle. Has been a long time since I have seen a buckle like that fall apart or even a buckle like that but memory leads me to think that is what happened to these.

There are obviously tons of other possibilities, but that is my best guess from the pics. That means the "black" stuff could have been tannin from the leather tarnishing them?
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