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Dottir Pillar of the Community Canada 864 Posts	Posted 07/31/2011 05:59 am Hello Folks, YES, I'm still alive and breathing Making some headway in "catch up" with things here and even finally got to spring for some pennies to search. Haven't been able to for some time so am happy. Found a few things so far, not finished searching the lot, no biggies so far BUT ... I did score this interesting 1980 one cent piece. On reverse is lamination peel from rim to date, quite a span of it peeled right off and gone pffft. Also, on the outer flat edge of the rim is a split near the reverse edge running from the lamination peel beginning by the date, and continued all around through to just past the end of the word CENT. I'm sure messing with it could life off the lamination, and I won't do that I can't scan the edge, so you'll have to take my word for it. On the obverse immediately opposite area from the reverse peel you can see problems there too. No detail! Dots are totally missing and you can see how it lacks detail in that whole area. I'm not sure what's happening so am interested in hearing what you folks think. Report this Post to the Staff

Dottir Pillar of the Community Canada 864 Posts	Posted 07/31/2011 06:04 am PS: The filled in reverse area between the KG, leaf and rim is just crud caked on. I didn't want to remove it and mess with it so just left it for now. By the way, the neck especially of Elizabeth seems to lack a lot of detail, like a weak strike or something. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 07/31/2011 2:16 pm Try gently removing the crud by the designer's initials with a sharp hawthorn or cactus spike, you won't hurt the coin. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Dottir Pillar of the Community Canada 864 Posts	Posted 07/31/2011 5:51 pm Thanks, I may try a wooden toothpick as I don't have any "thorns" though. I've removed caked on crud from other coins it it often leaves behind an ugly discoloration stain where the crud used to be, so I guess I just avoid removing it. I do worry about the crud left on them though. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 07/31/2011 7:15 pm Since the coin is circulated, you would be better off removing the crud than letting it sit there any longer. Try soaking it in distilled water first. I use an ultrasonic bath when I find "cruddy" clipped or error small cents and scarcer circulated Victorian large cents, and that seems to work well, without harming the coin. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Dottir Pillar of the Community Canada 864 Posts	Posted 08/01/2011 5:05 pm That's true I'll remove it and see the shape it's in after. Roll searching does bring the usual dings and scratches on coins so its pretty hard to find an unblemished one like uncirculated, for sure. Report this Post to the Staff
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