1955 Doubled Die...Before & After Acetone...will it grade

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• commoncents05 Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭

  February 20, 2007 1:06AM

  unfortunately, i have my doubts.
  
  -Paul

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 20, 2007 1:08AM

  Perhaps a low grade... just do not request a minimum grade... Cheers, RickO

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• jmski52 Posts: 23,281 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 20, 2007 1:32AM

  The acetone helped, a little. I'd still rather own that coin than not.

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• Bochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 20, 2007 1:56AM

  It does look better. Not sure about if it would grade.
  Would have to say, if the price were right, I would like to own it as well (not an offer to buy, just stating)

  I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

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• mozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭

  February 20, 2007 2:02AM

  super glue a few rose thorns to some brand new #2 pencil erasers...so you can use it like a probe pick.
  
  use/borrow a microscope and use acetone and the thorns to pick at the paint..it will come off.
  
  the thorns wont hurt the coin.
  
  then maybe it'll grade ...if thats not damage above "liberty"

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• bushmaster8 Posts: 5,616 ✭

  February 20, 2007 2:06AM

  Cool thorn tip Mo!

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• dorkbar Posts: 427 ✭✭✭

  February 20, 2007 2:50AM

  Best not to testify against yourself until after the trial is over. Here is the correct order:
  
  1) Doctor (oops, I mean conserve) coin.
  2) Submit coin
  3) Explain what you did and how it came out.

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• TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,623 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 20, 2007 3:03AM

  This is a very good question.
  
  All you have to spend is about forty bucks plus S/H & Insurance, to know for sure at PCGS.
  For everyone else theres's ANACS or NCS then off to NGC.

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• Tyler1924S Posts: 1,328

  February 20, 2007 3:15AM

  I would have done nothing and tossed this in an ANACS slab. I believe the day is coming when science/technology will be able to take care of this without any of this acetone hocus-pocus.

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• MrEureka Posts: 24,422 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 20, 2007 3:20AM

  I predict 61BN.

  Andy Lustig
  
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• messydesk Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 20, 2007 3:34AM

  Looking through PCGS's "no grade" categories, there's nothing there that says "paint" or "nail polish." The problem is that such removable surface distractiions (I won't say contaminants, since they may be inert with respect to the coin) may hide other reasons for a "no grade." This appears to be a case for NCS. Have them get the paint off the coin and assume the risk for doing so.

  John
  Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution

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• jmski52 Posts: 23,281 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 20, 2007 4:41AM

  I would have done nothing and tossed this in an ANACS slab. I believe the day is coming when science/technology will be able to take care of this without any of this acetone hocus-pocus.
  
  What's hocus-pocus about acetone? Nothing hocus-pocus about it. It can remove potentially-damaging and/or reactive surface contaminants (especially skin oils), and it doesn't react with metal. The only thing I'd be wary of is that acetone might uncover something already on the coin that you really didn't want to see.
  
  What kind of science/technology did you have in mind? Dissolving organic contaminants from the surface of a coin with acetone is actually very simple science.
  
  Dissolving contaminants isn't the same thing that those idiot yee-hah's who try to chemically tone coins with chemical attack are doing. Not by a stretch.
  
  I'd suggest other solvents for the "paint", but there are alot of different resin types used in paints, and once the resin is cured, it might not be soluble in a solvent. And not all solvents are supplied as pure as acetone.
  
  I can't really offer an opinion on the rose thorn. Mechanical removal of residues that are bound to the coin might be ok, but I can see some potential for damaging the coin.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• WaterSport Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 20, 2007 5:07AM

  I predict 61BN.
  
  You and I are thinking alike Mr. Eureka. IMO, it will grade and it will grade no less then AU58 on a bad day at the slab factory. Please keep us posted if you send it in.
  
  WS

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• ellewood Posts: 1,750 ✭

  February 20, 2007 5:46AM

  I would seriously edit this post BEFORE you submit the coin.
  
  You never know WHO reads these boards.

  

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