Well I thought I had a system-but there was a hitch....

canadacolornut

Trying to get the dad blamed pliofilm contamination off 3 Canada PL nickles that had great potential
otherwise.

I took all the right "conservation" steps, very carefully,by the books, following
the excellent tips I've received here on the forum.

I even went out and bought a Conair hair dryer since Dinah took hers with her when she went
to visit the grand kids.

Everything was going swimmingly and I was looking forward to slipping those babies into flips
and getting them off to PCGS.

Swimmingly, that is, until I turned the hair dryer on the full blast setting to dry the last coin on the towel;
got the air under the danged towel and flipped them all onto the floor, watching them clank against
each other and the cat's bowl and roll around under the table and the dishwasher.

Yes, yes, I know. They DO have low speed settings.

Next time

wybrit

Ouch!!!

zeebob

I dropped a proof 1C copper on the floor in my garage (similar mishap). The coin was not particularly valuable, but I still felt really stupid. I learned a valuable lesson about where rim dings come from.

My heart goes out to you. Better luck in the future.

Bob

JCMhouston

What Wybrit said!

1960NYGiants

I feel your pain.

Similar experience a couple of years ago:

I was preparing a 1960 Canadian PL set for submission. As I was inserting the 10c into the flip I somehow missed the edge and got the corner of the flip under my finger nail. Ouch! Dropped the coin and in my haste to catch it rolled over it with my chair. Yep it's bent now! Threw it in my scrap silver bucket.

Since then when packaging coins I keep my desk drawer open and lay a towel across it.

canadacolornut

Just one more little episode in the "How to screw up a nice coin without trying".

I found one very nice cameo Elizabeth 11 half crown in a set I bought. There were a couple of others worth submitting
but this one was pretty special.

I took my standard "conservation" step and it worked fine with the cloudy veil over the fields disappearing entire.

How

Ever!

This was in my "pre Conair hair dryer" period and, not wanting to press anything at all against the surfaces of a proof
coin to dry it, I simply waved it around like a monkey trying to keep a banana away from another monkey for awhile
and put it to rest and dry out on it's own.

After several minutes I took it back to the light table and discovered that the fields were laced with little white
spots that weren't there when I finished "the procedure".

Water spots of course and damn my eyes for not having the guts, the perception, the perspicasity and the IQ
to get into the car, head down to the local Walgreen's and buy the danged hair dryer before i started in on it.

Naturally the phase 11 treatment only made matters worse (the cameo contrast began disappearing and the little white spots were totally unaffected)
and the coin is in my "now what the hell do I do"? basket and will probably end up as silver melt value.

Learning the hard way as the victims of ignorance and incompetence stack up in plastic roll containers.

The wise will benefit from my, uh, "experience"

3Mark

CCN:

I wasn't going to reply to this thread, but I am curious about what you are doing. The last thing on a coin should be Koinsolv or acetone and then I dry it quickly with compressed air in a can. Water should never be the last thing on a coin.

3Mark

Hussulo

I agree with Mark. If using water, use distilled water.

canadacolornut

Thanks guys.

Actually I did use distilled water; but I passed up the "last dip should be alcohol or acetone" in my ignorance
and/or my self destructive masochism, since doing that would have more than likely deprived me of something
to p..ss and moan about on this thread