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I will be receiving this 1786 23-P coin soon. I have fallen in love with its surface below the verdigris + some other stains. I hope to carefully remove the verdigris + stains to show to beautiful light brown original surface. What do you think the black stains are? Any tips on removing them? I think it's worth the risk to let this coin "shine". It has some noticeable scratches near the date, which I hope are just scratches in the stain and not the coin's surface. And has two long thin vertical scratches unfortunately on the horse.   Edited by NJcoppers
03/20/2024 9:23 pm
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Keep us up to date on your progress!
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The black stain is corrosion that can be found on both copper and silver coins. I believe it has deep roots so removing it may be extremely difficult. Never seen anyone try, but I wouldn't recommend attempting on a nice coin.
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You may want to PM BadThad before you do anything to the coin. John1  |
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Looks like somebody took a shot at removing the black material on the reverse under the LU without much success.
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You may want to PM BadThad before you do anything to the coin.
John1 I second that. |
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The color variance between the obv and rev make me think some conservation already occurred on the obv.
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I think it's a great coin even with the ED. I doubt any cleaning will ever make it other than a "details" grade coin. Enjoy it for what it is, a piece of history.
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I'm with IGE on this lovely NJ.
As long as it doesn't have active "green rot" I'd leave it alone. Obverse has some greenish areas that may be previous PVC damage that's been treated.
You won't ever get the black areas off. I don't think NCS could, either.
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The more I look at it, the more I agree.
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i agree with above comments that a cleaning was attempted on this coin. I don't think there is anything that can further enhance the coin without damaging it
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Thank you all for the inputs. Seems unanimous.
Because of the scratches, I figured it can only be a details grade, but since the surface looks smooth and not pitted as often they are, I hoped this would look much nicer with the light brown/beige patina.
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