Poor Britannias - ouch! That's gotta hurt!

pendragon1998

This photo from a German seller pains me.





Anyone got a 2007 silver britannia with a shot at PCGS/NGC MS69?

pendragon1998

Looks like the British aren't much better! Pity - that one was a fairly nice coin.

pendragon1998

More from the same seller! Buy this guy some gloves! He's ruining pretty coins!







Oh, the humanity!!!

pendragon1998

IT'S CRIMINAL, I TELL YA!

ColinCMR

good enough for afis!

lordmarcovan

Pah! Mere fingerprints?

I thought this thread was about injured Britannias.

Mine's a little injured, and brought two of her crippled silver cousins along.

adamlaneus

Gotta love eBay. Source material for my upcoming "Chapter 3 of eBay Photography Fundamentals" - coin handling subchapter.

SaorAlba

Wonder if the finger grease is an additional charge?

DorkGirl

jamakin

oh the horror.........

pendragon1998

Wow - this one must have taken work...
(I don't know why crappy damaged britannias interest me so much - but they do.)

StubbyMcNumbthumbs

<< <i>Wow - this one must have taken work...
(I don't know why crappy damaged britannias interest me so much - but they do.)


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Looks like it was part of a "Pocket Coin for a Day" project, or he let one the young'ns take it to school for show and tell.
YIKES!

ajaan

I once made the mistake of rubber banding some Britannias in 2x2s.

olmanjon

Out of curosity is there anyway to remove finger prints?
Olmanjon

IloiloKano

<< <i>Out of curosity is there anyway to remove finger prints? >>



I was just now planning to ask the same question, but since you already did so, I will add to your question.

If the fingerprint oils have not already reacted with the metal, would an acetone dip followed by a pure alcohol wash remove the prints?

And if the oils have reacted with the metal, in this case the silver, what would be a visual indicator?

crito

Pure acetone will remove the oil and evaporate completely. So not sure what purpose the alcohol serves. If it was a sweaty palm there'll be ammonia from urea present in the print, however, and ammonia turns silver a dark gray or even black.

IloiloKano

I presumed the acetone would loosen the oil, but being dipped, contaminates wouldn't necessarily be completely removed from the coin; hence the alcohol 'wash'.

My presumption could easily be wrong.

I am much less likely to use acetone to rinse a coin, as it is toxic enough already to breathe the fumes, so I dip in acetone in a covered glass container overnight, then I remove the coin and use 100% alcohol to rinse the coin afterwards. If I use 70% or 90% alcohol, (as sold in grocery stores), it leaves a powdery residue, but pure alcohol completely evaporates just as acetone does, and hopefully the use of it in a rinsing fashion takes away any other residue that the acetone dip has "loosened", but perhaps still remains.

Maybe the alcohol rinse is not necessary, but I'd like to be certain, and I don't want to use acetone as a rinse.