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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Here is by far the worst looking coin I'm sending off to be restored. Its an 1858 Flying Eagle cent, and its caked in the green stuff. Take your best guess at a grade and lets see how nice a job PCGS does as curing this poor little eagle's dreaded disease. This one I'm submitting as sort of a test to see what PCGS restorations capabilities are.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3210 Posts |
Easy au55-58 if they can restore it correctly
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1963 Posts |
AU Dets. It will be an eyesore still.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Sorry, but...  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2589 Posts |
Even if it comes back at AU Details its still money in the bank, it was part of a wholesale lot I purchased for $20 that had enough junk silver in it to pay for the whole lot.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Well, can't argue with that.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11904 Posts |
Wow. That came with $20 worth of junk silver in an unsearched lot? That's incredible. That coin is worth a couple of hundred dollars, even in this state.
Did the junk silver lot also have those au or better lot of morgans? wow...
I'm at au55 on the coin. The green stuff looks like paint rather than pvc damage. Have you tried soaking in 100% acetone for a few hours? It might just come right off.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
04/14/2017 9:23 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2589 Posts |
I know for a fact that this is PVC, because it was in a Dansco like book with pages made of PVC. All of the stuff in the book was caked in Green PVC. There were no American silver coins in the lot, almost all of the silver was British stuff and most of tht just worth melt. There was also a page of common indian head pennies, with this and another Flying eagle (that was like a pitted Good details). All of the Morgans I posted I bought in other wholesale lots (those cost more than $20 lol).
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11904 Posts |
Congrats. Looks like you hit it out of the park here.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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United States
484 Posts |
Save your money and buy some 100% acetone. The green slime will come of easily. You may have to gently roll a Q tip over some of the globs, but it will clean up nicely.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2589 Posts |
I have acetone, but it will bring more money in a slab than raw
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
11922 Posts |
AU-55, but possibly Details.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12477 Posts |
We'll see what they can do but, I'm worried that the areas underneath the PVC will be brighter and still look very distracting. I guess there's really no other option, though.
In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2589 Posts |
I've sent in similar looking coins to NCS in the past and based off that I figure that there is a 50% chance it comes back details due to whats underneath the PVC
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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That green junk gets off the coin you have a very nice AU-58 I would say
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