Before and after acetone shots
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Forgive my continuing posts about the collection I received last night. I'm proud of the collection and I feel a responsibility to conserve it to honor the collector who was my benefactor.
He had taped many of the coins into the small Whitman folder I showed last night. So today I'm using acetone to remove the tape residue (following Robertpr's advice from an earlier thread).
I might have used alchohol, but I wasn't sure how they'd been treated before being taped into the folder, and I wanted to be absolutely sure I'd nipped any possibility of PVC from the coins prior to putting them in new 2x2s.
Started with a few of the least important coins from the collection:
I was most worried about the cent--the tape residue was pretty thick and green.
The dimes only needed about a 5 minute soak. The cent required more like a half hour:
He had taped many of the coins into the small Whitman folder I showed last night. So today I'm using acetone to remove the tape residue (following Robertpr's advice from an earlier thread).
I might have used alchohol, but I wasn't sure how they'd been treated before being taped into the folder, and I wanted to be absolutely sure I'd nipped any possibility of PVC from the coins prior to putting them in new 2x2s.
Started with a few of the least important coins from the collection:
I was most worried about the cent--the tape residue was pretty thick and green.
The dimes only needed about a 5 minute soak. The cent required more like a half hour:
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame
--Severian the Lame
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Acetone is as safe as water for coins, i.e. there is no reason to be cautious.