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Is this what Iodine looks like on gold coins?
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Or is this somehow natural...I've owned a few 1869's and seen a few more and never seen this pumpkin orange look.
What are your thoughts on the color...
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Not sure about the color. But it does look like it had an early cleaning (at least on my phones screen anyways).
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It does not look like any iodine treated coins I have seen.... It does look like it had a cleaning in the past...Cheers, RickO
It looks fooled with. Not sure about the substance that was used to do so.
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I does not look like iodine to me. The color looks a little off, but it might be from the way the photo was processed. The dark stuff in the letters does not have the iodine look.
Here is a piece that was treated with iodine.
The obverse looks like it might have spent time in contact with a piece of leather.
no.
For posterity...the OP coin.
Lance.
Maybe this is possible buy it would have go be sandwiched in it for quite a while...and there would be signs of impurities in the metal which I don't really see.
Anyhow, just odd color I've not yet seen on a on this date of a coin so thought I'd ask.