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F117ASRF117ASR Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭
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I have these two cameo kennedy halves that are coated with who knows what. I wanted to ask if any of you knew whether they can be repaired? Dipping perhaps? The one in the anacs holder looks like copper is bleeding through but I doubt it.



If you go here you can download the pics at full size (2.5 megs each) link
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  • tsacchtsacch Posts: 2,929 ✭✭✭
    may need a good acetone bath or MS70
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  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    Perhaps. The issue is whether the mirrors are intact beneath the toning, of have been etched.
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    and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
  • F117ASRF117ASR Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭
    etched? I don't follow
    Beware of the flying monkeys!
    Aerospace Structures Engineer
  • MrWarmakerMrWarmaker Posts: 94
    From the first picture, looks like the common proof haze you see all the time. I think a quick swim in MS70 would cure it. But, If that has a shot a DCAM I would send it off to the pros. $18 to get it done and another $15 for grading, PR67DCAM on a 1966 SMS is big money.

    Just my 2 cents
    Retired USAF 1979 - 1999 ~ F-4 & A-10 Crew Chief/Logistics Planning
  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    I'll put up a pic for you tomorrow. The mirrors on SMS coins are usually very delicate, and on occasion toning is active enough to damage the mirrors, leaving what looks like patches of frost in the fields. Some coins emerge as near perfect gems, some don't.
    Developing theory is what we are meant to do as academic researchers
    and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
  • F117ASRF117ASR Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭


    << <i> From the first picture, looks like the common proof haze you see all the time. I think a quick swim in MS70 would cure it. But, If that has a shot a DCAM I would send it off to the pros. $18 to get it done and another $15 for grading, PR67DCAM on a 1966 SMS is big money. >>



    My thoughts too. In person it looks like it has potential to be DCAM but I never like to over-estimate.
    It would be nice if it turned out to be such.

    I am adding more 2.5 Meg pics to my photo album now. All you have to do is click the download button (don't right click and click save target as because it will give you a lower resolution pic) and you can check it out at full screen in photoshop or something
    Beware of the flying monkeys!
    Aerospace Structures Engineer
  • F117ASRF117ASR Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭
    How does one send a coin to NCS? Do you have to be and NGC member?
    Beware of the flying monkeys!
    Aerospace Structures Engineer
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    You can sign up for NCS if you're an ANA member. Just give them a call at 1-866-627-2646 and have them send you the forms.

    I don't see that 1966 SMS as a DCAM even with conservation.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • F117ASRF117ASR Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭


    << <i>
    I don't see that 1966 SMS as a DCAM even with conservation. >>



    Perhaps. But it does seem pretty comparable to DCAMs when it is in hand. I may be wrong but
    I think I should take the chance. Could you post a pic of your DCAM without visual enhancement (what it would look like at another angle)? Thanx Russ
    Beware of the flying monkeys!
    Aerospace Structures Engineer

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