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Valued Member
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Can you help me with grading this? And I would clean more? I cleaned and it with EDTA. Thx   |
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Can you help me with grading this? And I would clean more? I cleaned and it with EDTA. Thx What? You cleaned it?  |
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Valued Member
 Italy
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Unlikely it was so black in many parts that you cannot see what is down it. You think this is an expensve coin?
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Valued Member
United States
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One of the first golden rules to coin collecting is to Never clean a coin unless you really know what you are doing. Cleaning coins will generally devalue them.
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Valued Member
Italy
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In fact the more of coins I have I never clean but this one have so strong black up that you cannot see the coin so I think use EDTA.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
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What is EDTA? Doesn't everyone know that's ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid?  Seems like a strange choice. Edited by tdziemia
09/07/2019 11:53 pm
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EDTA is a "chelating agent". It attacks metal ions (ie. corrosion products) but leaves raw metal alone. I've used it with moderate success.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Now where might one get EDTA, I wonder? A large hardware store? It might be interesting to try this on a cull coin to see what happens.
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Canada
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Please take it out of the holder and give us cropped pictures. It looks like an austrian coin of leopold the hogmouth. The denomination should be under the portrait but I cannot read it. usually it is 3, 6 or 15 (Kreuzer)
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It looks like an austrian coin of leopold the hogmouth. The denomination should be under the portrait but I cannot read it. usually it is 3, 6 or 15 (Kreuzer) Could even be 1 kreuzer (such as KM#1135) considering the small dimension of the coin in relation to the window in the 2 x 2. In this case, there is no denomination obverse. maybe this is already known by the OP. As for the grade, I think a reasonable possibility is VF details,Improperly Cleaned |
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Posted 09/06/2019 6:41 pm
