Coinery

Me too!

Something else to share, as I've been through a fair few bottles of the stuff now, is don't repeatedly dip the same cotton bud into the acetone! I used to do this, but found out, when knocking the last 1/8th of a bottle over one day, that all that horrible grease and gunk you've lovingly removed from your coins, has not ALL gone in the bin with your cotton buds! A fair amount of it is floating around on the top of your acetone from those multiple dips, waiting to stick to your cotton bud the next time you dip it in and make its way back onto a coin! The stuff really works, you wouldn't believe how much rubbish you can remove from 50 or so BU coins! So, dip your cotton bud in once only, then turn it around for your next dip!

OK, disclaimer...whilst this has never ruined one of my coins, I cannot guarantee it will never bite you on the arse. Basically, it's a solvent that evaporates very quickly, but is brilliant for dissolving invisible grease and gunk from the surface of a coin. I have used this on all my coins, BU copper, silver, hammered, and gold, just to remove any traces of fingerprint residue or other nasties! It's never yet affected any tone or lustre, so the coin doesn't actually LOOK any different afterwards, unless it's really grimey to start with, or had a previous wipe with some oil or other. With some copper (BU included) and CuNi, I always feel a sense of satisfaction when I look at the cotton bud and see a light green tinge, which was invisible on the coin. So, essentially, I don't clean the coins, I 'decontaminate' them, before sealing them up in flips! I very carefully 'mop' the coins using cotton buds, which have been saturated in acetone which, incidentally, is not the nail-cleaning type, as this has conditioners in it. You can get 'straight' acetone from most chemists, and some supermarket that have dispensaries. I've never mopped a proof, and I'm very aware of the hairline issue, which always shows up under artificial light (I don't know why, but tilt a coin which looks absolutely fine in daylight under a lamp, and a very different coin can often be seen), so I can reassure you that I have never added hairlines to my coins from this process, I have diligently checked. It is my hope that these efforts will help avoid any future appearances of prints and/or stains from appearing on my coins! Hopefully? Just to add, I always give the milling a really good mop too! Don't drop it...stand over a cushion or something!

This is the problem with these immaculate mirror finishes on modern coins. Even one FRESH fingerprint will be nigh impossible to remove without leaving something you will be able to see under artificial light. I like to at least be able to decontaminate my coins before sealing them up, so a precision field would not be for me (unless bought as new), as much as they have wow-factor. I like to be able to gently 'clean' the surfaces of my coins with acetone and a cotton bud, which you can do on everything bar proofs! I'd still sit a proof in a bath of acetone, but would'nt attempt anything else. Point being, if you are going to take it out, don't touch it whatever you do!

I wonder who that was slabbed for? If the seller's obverse image (the reverse isn't coming up on my phone) was put on here for CGS guesses, I think anyone suggesting CGS 75 would be laughed off the forum, if only for the rim and bust scratch!

It might be better to look around the net, and maybe put forward said dealers and proposed coins for comments? You'd probably to learn a little bit more, as would we? Edit: I'll not make the change, but rather highlight how much I detest auto spell, and even auto word changes on this bloody iPhone! Grrr

Is it possible to bookmark threads? I've found this one particularly interesting! Good stuff!

WhooHoooooo!

Possibly - but they normally say 'Cleaned' if that is the reason for rejection!Agreed! However, everything can tone...they're saying YOUR coin has toned for a second time (or more), which implies it's been cleaned, nothing more! I wonder if it went in sensitively dipped whether they would reject it, because not ever coin is toned in life, as we know?

? Not playing the CGS game, that man!

Isn't retoned the same as cleaned? They would, in a round about way, be saying it's cleaned?

This is my favourite Elizabeth I design. Not the very best one, but you get the gist! http://www.amrcoins.com/coins-for-sale/HG-0778/

It's great on here, ain't it?

I think we need a new name for Paulus? I'm proposing Paulece?

You're certainly hauling them over the coals at the minute, I'll give you that!Agreed, though! I wouldn't have bothered to grade it if I was Neil! In that condition, you'd either love it or not!

No nicks that I can see, must be something on the CGS pic. Here is the auction pic: Apart from the inexplicable spot at 4 o/clock on the CGS pic, the CGS pic is considerably more attractive to me than the (DNW) auction pic... photos are everything when it comes to distance selling! I'm so glad it's not rim nicked! Must be the CGS image, then!

Not playing, but a lovely G5 crown, Paulus! Really nice...is that also a keeper for type? Edit: is that a nick at the obverse 4 0'clock? Only thing to catch it in my opinion.

Nice little counterfeit farthing for your avatar!

WhooooHooooo! be good to see the obverse too? Difficult to tell the grade from that image, though it is certainly very high! Unless it's your photography, however,I think you could at least take the B off Bunc? Welcome aboard!

There is a setting in PhotoBucket that allows you turn off those URL tags permanently. Go to your PhotoBucket page and hover over the vaguely head shaped icon (top right of page) and select "Settings". Then select "Albums" and remove the tick from "Link back to albums", save and URL tags will be a thing of the past. Dah, dah! Thanks, Nick! I've just made the change...have done it the long way round for years!

I use Chrome myself! What I do is open my image up on the computer, using Microsoft Paint, which usually displays the picture massively on the screen. I then click on 'resize' which opens a box. I check the box is saying 'percentage' then change the 100% figure to say 20% and click OK. It will then show the image smaller on the screen. If it's still too large, or small, I just 'undo' and try a different percentage until I like the display size on the screen. It's then just a case of 'save as' and I generally just put the percentage size at the end of the image title. Don't just click 'save' or you will reduce your lovely big image forever. OK, then I save that image to photobucket, click on the IMG link which will give you something like this to paste However, what I always do then, is to remove the highlight bits in red, as otherwise people can click on your image and be directed to your entire photobucket folder, which may, or may not, be something you want to happen? Edit: well that didn't work! basically remove the bit from the end, and from the beginning!

I'm amazed that there are so many lovely tokens out there! What I mean by that is somebody has loved them from the very beginning, or they'd never have survived like that otherwise. Pretty, pretty!