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Re: Your Gut-wrenching Tales of Ruining a Coin
I have a SAE $1 coin that had a small black piece of crud right smack in the center of the obverse. So I took some acetone and sure enough the black crud came off all nice and neat. But then a small milk spot appeared on the smooth part of the obverse. Every time I tried to remove the milk spot with acetone it would move… -
Re: I'm about to find out just how good NCS is.
I'd sure love to find out their methods. One of the other coins I got back today is a cameo Accented Hair that had a large milk spot on the reverse. They couldn't remove it, (nobody can), but they were able to reduce it by about 50%. It takes the coin from PR65CAM to PR66CAM, which pretty much doubles the value. I've never… -
Re: The rarest HOF coin is NGC.
<< <i>"Foreign material" on a coin that was slabbed inside a weeks time? How/why on earth would this coin be slabbed with 'foreign material'? Where it 'spills' from the field to the rim above the gloves pocket webbing, it doesn't look like foreign material to me, and it certainly doesn't look like milk spotting to me… -
My latest purchase.....pics up in my latest post.
Check this out......the pic is from the auction, it's a crappy picture and it's small, but sometimes, wonderous things come from small crappy pictures. All 5 coins are CAM/DCAM, the dime is milk-spotted bad on the reverse, the Jefferson is hazy and gold toned, the cent has a few very tiny black spots, the Washington is… -
Re: Questions on Submitting PF ASE to PCGS
<< <i>I wonder if they had done this before, spray the lint off with compressed air. That may be where those dreaded milk spots were caused from. Any water vapor forced onto the silver surface would do that. Maybe a camel hair brush to knock the dust off is the better option? >> One would hope they would use dry compressed… -
Re: Dipping Unc coins--whats your opinion?
<< <i>why let enviromental damage progress any more then it has too! if only there was a way to remove that milk spotting ya know and as far as being persecuted for my beliefs.., bash away as any seem fit >> I heard a rumor that PCGS has the milk spotting removal process down on proofs. Now as far as dipping, I agree there… -
Re: 1963 Franklin Roll
From what I have learned (or maybe I made this up) is that the milk spots on this era of halves is from the rinsing procedures that they did to the blanks. They are common on this era of halves. Nothing irks me more then to find a sweet cameo franklin proof and have it fuglied up by those darn milk spots! About your end… -
Re: New Mint Survey
I also received the letter yesterday and promptly took the online survey. It took less than 5 minutes to complete, and I did mention the need to improve quality control in terms of defects on the coins, but did not specifically mention milk spots. Milk spots have never been a problem for me. I guess I've been lucky so far,… -
1986 Proof 70 ASE to TPG or not to TPG?
If you had an absolutely pristine 1986 Proof ASE, would you send it in? It is still in the US Mint capsule. I did contact PCGS about 2 months ago, and they did say they accept them. I asked about milk spotting, and the customer service rep said she believed the1986 was not as likely to milk spot, but was not 100% certain… -
Re: ASE Collection finished (BU)
<< <i>Russ knows all about this phenomenan and could throughly explain it. >> Well, I know what causes milk spotting on 1950 to 1964 proofs, but I'm not sure it's the same situation with the Silver Eagles. With the earlier date proof coins contaminants were sometimes left on the coin from the planchet rinsing process, and…
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