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New Member
United States
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Hello Years ago my mother and stepdad got me a painted ASE for Christmas. I stuck it in my Dansco 7070 and forgot about it for ten years. A tiny bit of the coin seems to have toned black--Just a bit of the edge where I think the plastic strip wasn't covering. So I've been thinking about trying to dip just this tiny section because I figure the paint will get all messed up if I dip the whole thing. Dipping just a little section will probably leave it a totally different color than the rest of the coin. So it just occurred to me that maybe the best solution is to dip the whole thing and completely remove the paint. I'd love some expert thoughts on this. Is it worth more with the paint? Does the paint actually detract from the value? If I were to dip it to remove the paint, would I have to do it so long that the luster would be destroyed by the time the paint was gone? Acetone? Ezest? Any help would be appreciated ;) Oh and only 4 spots left in the 7070...have quite a few lower quality coins in it but I can always upgrade when I get those last 4 filled... darn 19th Century dollars ain't cheap! Anyway thanks in advance! Jason |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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@ Mrjason71 To have better idea and opinions :  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11951 Posts |
To most collectors .. the paint lessens the value. Their might be some that collect the painted ASE, I have a few in my collection. Most of the time I will soak them for two or three weeks in acetone to get all the paint off. Acetone will not hurt the luster. E-zest will. After taking off the paint you may have to use E-zest to get the black spots off. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Wow - two or three weeks? I rescued a lot of politically painted JFKs found in circulation. Only an overnight soak in acetone was needed.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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@ GR58, After taking off the paint you may have to use E-zest to get the black spots
off.
Could you explain E-zest.
Mrjason71 Oh and only 4 spots left in the 7070.. WOW
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Bedrock of the Community
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You can find collectors for some of the colored ASEs it really just depends on the look. ASEs iAds easily replaces though, I'd probably just save it as a gift from my parents and replace it with a different one. The black on it is almost certainly from the album, a lot that were in albums will have black on the edges from them
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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E Zest coin cleaner is sold in most coin shops.
When collectors talk about dipping, most of the time this is what they are
talking about.
Dipping coins in e Zest can have bad results. But sometimes when you
know what your doing you can remove .. spots or finger print ...
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11951 Posts |
Earl42. Sometimes the paint is really baked on, and hard to get off.
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Moderator
 United States
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The painted ASE probable has sentimental value, so I can see why you would want to be careful not to remove it.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
655 Posts |
Will you take my pic? She's painted right down to her red lips!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Looks like a decal to me....
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Moderator
United States
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I do not think it is a decal. It looks like the colour was printed onto the coin. I am not sure how the process works, but all of the painted coins I have examined (not many, to be honest) had this same printed look.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
655 Posts |
It's not a sticker but it's certainly not high quality work, either. Not a mint product, I would say.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The skin tone and gray shading on the dress have the same kind of dotting quality that you used to see in comic books, where they used different sizes of dots of pure color to emulate different tones because there were only so many shades of ink available (like how modern color printers work with only cyan, magenta, yellow and black, but with much bigger dots). That tells me it's some kind of mechanical printing, not paint as we commonly know it.
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Moderator
United States
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Alpha, that is exactly what I meant by the printed look.  |
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Posted 10/14/2017 12:43 pm
