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Re: Clean or no clean?
The staining around the elephant's face and over on the right side tells me that there was some serious corrosion happening there, horn silver or some such, which has already been mostly cleaned off … (View Post)2 -
Re: Would you include 1976 Bicentennial Coins in a Modern Commemorative Collection?
Most countries don't have this weird disconnect that America has between "circulating coins" and "commemorative coins". If a coin is issued specifically to commemorate a person or… (View Post)1 -
Re: Is this pure acetone or how do you tell?
It doesn't matter, so long as you know what they are, and you know they won't stay behind on the coin and cause long-term damage. If you don't know that for certain, then it definitely does matter. Y… (View Post)1 -
Re: x
Yet another interesting piece of numismatic history. B) I find it interesting the suggestion from Chairman Barnwell back in 1861, that, if Confederate coinage were to be issued at that time, rather t… (View Post)2 -
Re: Lid on acetone bottles do the fumes make the plastic melt?
Acetone solubility is reversible - anything which contaminated acetone might leave behind on a coin, pure acetone should remove quite easily. Since it already dissolved in acetone the first time arou… (View Post)4
