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I like it. EF-40. A bath in Acetone might remove the gunk in the protected areas.
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Agree EF-40, perhaps an old cleaning, betting that gunk will clean up.
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Excellent, Sannys25! The first coin I purchased through the mail was an 1839 Booby Head back in the early '70s when I was a kid, so I heartily support your acquisition! VerdiCare will help in cleaning it up.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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03/11/2024 4:38 pm
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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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Agreed, EF. An pure acetone soak and Verdi-Care will help your coin.
Errers and Varietys.
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I have never used Verdicare before. Do you just let it sit on the coin and then wipe it off?
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i'd try acetone first. if that doesn't help then verdichem which I believe is the new name of verdicare. it comes with instructions and is easy to use with excellent results plus it preserves the coin. neither one will cause issues with straight grading
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EF(40) seems fair. Maybe even EF(45). I love the 1839 Booby Head Cent--both in name and appearance. It's cool to track the small differences in the shape of Liberty's bust itself on these large cents from 1836-1839, as a transition between the "Matron Head" and the "Braided Hair" iterations of the Coronet design.
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