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1965 LMC Unique "Frosted Glass" Look Greaser?

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Found this CRH a few minutes ago. I thought it looked quite unique, so here it is. It looks like a Greaser to me.



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The close ups were not really areas of special concern. The reverse close up shows some good DDD.
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 Posted 02/26/2017  11:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Crazyb0 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Don't think its a Greaser, looking at date its been coated and that effect applied somehow. Interesting tho...
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 Posted 02/26/2017  11:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add uruman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
looks like it's been through some acid
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 Posted 02/26/2017  11:39 pm  Show Profile   Check spru's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add spru to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Either acid-treated or environmental damage/corrosion.
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Looks to me like a late die state and maybe some environmental damage. Whatever it is, it has a unique effect. I like it.
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It is something I do not remember seeing before. I thought it may have been a light even coat of grease or something like that. The other explanations seem more plausible though. Thanks for the comments.
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Acid or heat damage.
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That's a new one for me. Can anybody replicate it. Challenge for the chemists in the CCFamily!

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I vote acid. Maybe a class room experiment or someone got bored.

I remember when I went to school (way back when) we were not allowed to experiment with acid(s), but was allowed to experiment with mercury. Thanks, Doug.
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The weight will tell us if it was heated or dipped into acid. The Acid one will be thinner and lighter.
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Well I can easily replicate this..ok not exactly.. but somewhat similar I think.. Not with acid or any chemicals. The use of a very fine Wire (or even super high grit plasitic flap wheel meant for super fine polishing of soft metals) brush attached to a high speed drill... I only know cause I have done it on some wheat ears that were well far beyond being saved.ill get a pic as soon as I get home later and you can compare, but I'm pretty sure that's the case with this one... unless my coins were on the same kind of defected planchet or whatever caused this and I just didn't notice beforehand. I thought it was a super cool looking affect though..
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Ok, so here are 2 coins I have.. the first is the penny, and I did this to the coin with an attempt to see what kind of affects a soft polishing/sanding wheel would do to copper pennies.. I forget what combination of things I used on this one, but I wanna say it was a super fine grit plastic flap wheel on a dremel maybe? anyway, so this is what I got..

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NOW for the quarter... I have no idea what caused this since I found this in my pocket change a couple months back. I thought it looked really neat, and unique.. although it was most like PMD, I still kept it, and had my local coin shop guy give me an opinion.. he wasn't really too sure.. but he said if he had to guess it was most likely acid washed.. but if anybody else can chime in I'd be interested in what others might think since I still havent see one quite like the quarter, at least not online yet..

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Nice experiment.

Should have posted "before" pictures too, but I think we can see the damage.
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I just wondered what a coin would look like squeezed with sand paper on both sides. I'm sure it would be more incuse dots on the coin. (from the sand and depending on the grid number)
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The weight will tell us if it was heated or dipped into acid. The Acid one will be thinner and lighter.


The weight is 3.07g
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The word "STATES" on the quarter looks like horror movie font.
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