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I'd try a Single Malt for removing residue, one for me, one for the tomb, twice the more for me, only once for the plastic tomb. I couldn't possible waste good whiskey on an old slab!

That's a pretty nasty ding on the rim at I in GEORGIUS, and what appears to be a bit of rust breaking through the copper-plate at the 7 in date.

PLEASE not the pie thread again (that's a different PIE to you PIES...drove my chevy to the...)!

PLEASE not the pie thread again (that's a different PIE to you PIES...drove my chevy to the...)!

Not if you've knackered it with acetone it doesn't! I've been watching this coin for a while, just to see what happens! I'd say 200% though (of course I do have some...I think it's worth £100 at least! )

Was the virgin Mary weeping? Glad I wasn't Joseph...a very understanding man On Jeremy Kyle tomorrow? "We've done a DNA test... Joseph... (audience, please - let me say this, it's very very difficult). Joseph... I'm so sorry..."

Not quite as convincing in macro, but worth seeing if you're going for a chancy snap on the 'Bay!

There is a product on the market for removing the opacity from the plastic windows on car soft tops - http://www.renovointernational.com/products/plastic-polish.php. The bad news is, I had some and threw it away after a general clear out of my garage a few months ago. The even worse news is, it didn't seem to work anyway. I always use white spirit for removing sellotape residue. Many thanks for that, I'll have a proper surf around that one tomorrow, maybe a better starting place than T-Cut! A shame there's not a colour restorer for the hologram!

It's a massive pain in the proverbial I can tell you! Ahh, the joys of idiocy

I'm going to see whether jewellers rose can bring the surface back to life (may even give T-cut a trial on an Acetoned CD cover), the opaqueness can only be microns deep! I'm not quite as bothered about the HOLOGRAM as it's still obviously their hologram, and the online images match clearly, but it would be good to see the coin at least!

Not to be recommended!

I know what you mean but, whether we like it or not, it would likely sell so much better, having been graded by a 'true numismatic professional ' (acetone disaster aside)!

i think the histogram is safe but keep the acetone away from the hologram Where on earth did I get that one from?

Bugger!

Stuart, the only thing I use on slabs is a hammer

Fools beware! I have just taken receipt of an amazingly beautiful MS64 copper in an NGC slab. The seller very kindly cellotaped the slab with gusto to a piece of cardboard, presumeably hoping to protect at least one face of the slab. Anyway, after cursing under my breath for 10 minutes, I had in hand a lovely sticky lump of plastic, with a coin encapsulated somewhere beneath the goo! So, me thinking the best tool for the job to be acetone, I gave it a good rub with a soaked tissue - result is an opaque slab and partially damaged NGC histogram. F**k! nb: slab and histogram are genuine, and the coin inside is the one photographed on the NGC website! DO NOT USE ACETONE ON SLABS/HISTOGRAMS!

When you say 'thanks for any help,' what is it you are asking? Welcome and, whatever it is, someone here will know the answer, I'm sure! Queen Victoria (x2) & George V (x1) Are these coins valuable? I spy, with my little eye... Do you know what? If that's the full thread title, I didn't get that on my phone! The title finishes at (x1) on my VERY posh, pain in the arse, iPhone! My apologies Barton, and thank-you Peck (tongue sticky out emoticon)! I know how to do 's on my phone though oh, and winks!

It's true. Those that do their homework don't tend to spend vast sums of money on eBay. Both with massive feedback so, in the absence of seeing anything cheap on their sites, who's laughing? Not at my expense fortunately!

As I said, I've steered clear of their photographic/logo branding a long time ago, I now never ever EVER waste a click to follow up even the most enticing title! The only eBayer I can say that this applies to!

When you say 'thanks for any help,' what is it you are asking? Welcome and, whatever it is, someone here will know the answer, I'm sure!

ANOTHER BNTA glaring error...A hammered penny listed as a halfgroat AND the complimentary incorrect Spink number! Will reveal the source if he doesn't accept my offer

G5 XII's...much more plentiful, and more likely the series where you can get some quality coins within your budget!

Quick David - before he changes his mind, find out what he will pay for it!! £8.99. I wanted it and now it's mine. Another one to add to my cracked die collection. It never ceases to amaze me what the main focus for a collection can be! Excellent

Dose lions are leopards! Hence the lack of mane and long body hair. (Sorry, just a personal bugbear - nearly everyone gets this wrong). Including the England sporting teams! "3 leopards on my shirt..."

A magnificent reference book has been compiled by authors Brown, Comber, and Wilkinson, cataloguing hundreds of Elizabeth I varieties. The varieties are determined by the punches used for the busts, roses, lions, lis, shields, leaves, etc., and also the major legend variations (AN instead of ANG etc.). It sounds complicated but, honestly, it's not. Their (BCW) book identifies the punches with line drawing, which I have always found to be overly fussy and difficult to follow(but useable of course). The Elizabeth bust line-drawings in Spink, are actually taken from BCW's work, so you can get a sense of what I mean. Anyway, I am doing nothing more complicated than cutting out the roses, busts, lions, etc. from photographs and displaying them as a supporting resource in the identification of the Elizabeth coins that people have, and presenting them at some point on a website (my avatar is BCW Rose 18 ). I think it would be infinitely more interesting for collectors to document 'Threepence BA-1B:a' on their tickets, rather than just a blanket, and rather uninspiring, S2564. As an example of the scale of things, S2561 for example represents 161 different BCW sixpences (some rare, some common), each of them distinctly different. I'm not suggesting you'd want to collect every one, but it's nice to know which one you have, and you can do this in under a couple of minutes. So, there you have it! My only thought is whether I should re-jig the template and include 3 busts/roses etc. in decreasing grades, to further assist identification, but that's 3 times more work, so maybe not! I guess also, once coins are approaching the lower end of the grading scale, it becomes less and less likely that all the information is present to fully catalogue it anyway, so I'll probably not bother! Having said that, you can sometimes clearly identify a faceless washer, but struggle to pin an EF coin down, on account of something as annoying as an overdate (the 1578/7/6 thread being a case in point).