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RonaldDayRonaldDay Posts: 101 ✭✭✭
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Looks like a tiny spot of Verdigris. Any hope for this coin?

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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,306 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Give it an acetone bath, won't hurt the coin or change the color. If it comes off all good, if not then it will be a problem.

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  • hfjacintohfjacinto Posts: 872 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Use Verdi care, that will remove the spot.

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  • bennybravobennybravo Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭

    @coinbuf said:
    Give it an acetone bath, won't hurt the coin or change the color. If it comes off all good, if not then it will be a problem.

    Very much agree.

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  • RonaldDayRonaldDay Posts: 101 ✭✭✭

    @hfjacinto said:
    Use Verdi care, that will remove the spot.

    I was wondering if this is something that could be sent in for conservation, of it that would be a waste of time.

  • Manifest_DestinyManifest_Destiny Posts: 6,896 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @RonaldDay said:

    @hfjacinto said:
    Use Verdi care, that will remove the spot.

    I was wondering if this is something that could be sent in for conservation, of it that would be a waste of time.

    1903 Indian - Waste of time.

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @hfjacinto said:
    Use Verdi care, that will remove the spot.

    I have had very little success using that on large cents, though my spots were larger. Essentially no change after multiple applications. And at $20 for a tiny bottle, I was pretty disappointed.

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  • hfjacintohfjacinto Posts: 872 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I used Verdi Care on this coin which had some verdis, but I don't have a before picture.

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,347 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It looks like pvc, not verdigris. Acetone should work.

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  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,693 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Your Indian Cent is in great condition but not worth getting graded/slabbed.
    I found out that sometimes Verdi-Care works and other times it doesn't do a damn thing.

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  • RonaldDayRonaldDay Posts: 101 ✭✭✭

    The pictures don't do the coin justice, great cartwheels, and nice luster in hand. I won't be sending it in though.
    Want to thank everyone for their feedback!!! You guys are great.

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,220 ✭✭✭✭✭

    One last thing before you go. Call it a cent, not a penny. You'll fit in much better here. 👍 😉

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  • lilolmelilolme Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am not a 'penny' :) type but might check that coin for more greenish spots. I think I could be seeing some scattered around on both the obverse and reverse but smaller and more difficult to determine. On the enlarged photo appears to be some at the bottom of the U. On obverse photo maybe at the bottom of the Liberty head band. Reverse maybe the shield or adjacent areas and around One Cent.. Other similar scattered areas that might be.

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  • RonaldDayRonaldDay Posts: 101 ✭✭✭

    Wound up with this instead

  • Clackamas1Clackamas1 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is PVC acetone will take care of it.

  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,306 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @RonaldDay said:
    Wound up with this instead

    Maybe it's just the lighting, but the fields of this 1903 looks off, looks whizzed to me.

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  • RonaldDayRonaldDay Posts: 101 ✭✭✭

    Maybe it's just the lighting, but the fields of this 1903 looks off, looks whizzed to me.

    I sure hope not: This is another view of the coin:

  • RonaldDayRonaldDay Posts: 101 ✭✭✭

    Woops, I made a mistake. I posted the wrong picture of the coin I wound up in the first instance. The second picture is the one in my registry now.

    I wish this forum had an edit feature, I realized the mistake soon after and had no way to correct it.

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