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Putty on a silver dollar?

crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭
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  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To what purpose? Putty is supposed to fill in the nicks and such. Not sure who would putty a common Peace Dollar in MS63. Coin does/did have something come in contact with it at one time, but it does not look like putty to me.
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Likely
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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When putty ages (this is plenty of time in this holder) it turns a tanish/yellowish color. I don't see that from
    that pic.

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  • KoveKove Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>When putty ages (this is plenty of time in this holder) it turns a tanish/yellowish color. I don't see that from
    that pic.

    bobimage >>




    The most common "putty" I see, whether in photographs or lot viewing, is whitish with a light blue tint to it. Just like this photo.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    Putty on a low grade common Peace Dollar?

    I think not.

    What I see is haze which can be common for silver coins.
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  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That looks like PVC. image


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  • magikbillymagikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭
    I see a bit of what is asked, but the dispersal seems odd for putty in this context, especially the parallel streaks lower left. It also looks like a smeared print or any of a bunch of other stuff, but it does not look deliberately laid down IMHO. Thumbing...

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  • njcoincranknjcoincrank Posts: 1,066 ✭✭
    It is my professional opinion that the substance you see is PVC.

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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    Definitely not putty, and appears to be a type of haze which I've seen before on Peace dollars.
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  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭


    << <i>Definitely not putty, and appears to be a type of haze which I've seen before on Peace dollars. >>


    I have handled 1000s of peace dollars, this looks to be a film and not typical haze but I have been wrong once before. Not on coins mind you but in general. It also appears to be heaviest on ares of chatter. PVC maybe but it sure looks thumbed in to me
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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,392 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It is my professional opinion that the substance you see is PVC.

    njcc >>



    Putty Vinyl Chloride? That would be putty amazing unless there was a surface strip of mostly copper. I always thought that PVC on silver coins gave a milky white haze, esp. pure silver.
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  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    Looks like someone that was eating fried chicken touched the coin.......imageimage
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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,392 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Looks like someone that was eating fried chicken touched the coin.......imageimage >>



    Fried Chicken Toning?image
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  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    pvc
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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Definitely not putty, and appears to be a type of haze which I've seen before on Peace dollars. >>


    I have handled 1000s of peace dollars, this looks to be a film and not typical haze but I have been wrong once before. Not on coins mind you but in general. It also appears to be heaviest on ares of chatter. PVC maybe but it sure looks thumbed in to me
    image >>





    Ask for the seller to provide pictures shot at a different angles, I bet in some the haze isn't visible (as I said, I've seen this before).
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  • KoveKove Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭✭
    PVC often builds up against devices and lettering, where it's slow leaching "flow" is restricted by the higher metal. You often find green globs right near letters.

    The substance on this coin is different. It does not go all the way to the lettering like "L" in liberty, and it stops short of the face. There is a "halo" around the devices where the substance wasn't pressed in. There are also clear fingerprints in the substance.

    Someone smeared something on that coin.
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    Nose oil thumbed on the coin.
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  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It is my professional opinion that the substance you see is PVC.

    njcc >>



    +1

    Thumbed with what? Not putty (now so generic a term it is often currently misapplied). Squalene - check this out, scientists image?
    Do the math. And you'll see the coin is not worth "doing". And the surface texture and consequent reflectivity make it worthless as a "practice piece"

    In agreement with and deference to someone who is now one of the premier graders in the business. image
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