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Does anyone know a simple way to remove gilt from a silver coin? "The surfaces", in terms of the original surface which the silver coin used to have prior to being gilded, are already destroyed The coin would most likely have been chemically cleaned prior to the electroplating or whatever technique was used to apply the gilding
1883 LIberty nickel Cents vs. No Cents Values and why Coin collecting (or hoarding) was more common at the time than most collectors would suspect since all we really hear about these days are the well known and wealthy collectors of the gilded age
1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition Commemorative Coin You have a commemorative medal (not a coin) issued at the Columbian Exposition in 1893 It is listed as Eglit-242 in the standard catalog "Columbiana" by Nathan Eglit and was struck in brass which was then gilded before issue The piece was issued with an integral loop struck with the medal but your example has the loop missing (as many do) You can see the remnants at 12 o'clock on both sides
Mexico 1732 milled 8 reales simply AMAZING provenance Stacks Bowers . . . MEXICO 8 Reales, 1732-Mo F Mexico City Mint Philip V PCGS Genuine--Harshly Cleaned, AU Details Lot Description MEXICO 8 Reales, 1732-Mo F Mexico City Mint Philip V PCGS Genuine--Harshly Cleaned, AU Details KM-103; Cal-1437; Yonaka-M8-32A (this coin illustrated) Variety with three upper bands on right pillar Struck in the inaugural year of milled coinage in Mexico, this RARE Pillar
Fairmont Collection of Liberty Double Eagles - Page 3 This type of information was provided in great detail for the Gilded Age collection of mint state double eagles sold by Stack’s-Bowers several years ago Does anyone have any information on the Fairmont Collection that can be shared?
The U1chicago Chicago token collection — Collectors Universe Given my username, it would follow that I would be attracted to tokens related to Chicago So here I present the small subset of my collection now known by the super creative moniker of "U1chicago Chicago token collection" The mainstay and the one that started it all is the C D Peacock
Detecting and dealing with PVC - An example - Page 2 Thanks for the info Eric Whenever I crackout an old Green PCI slab, I use a small Pyrex bowl and give the coin an acetone bath I have the urge to buy a PVC coin (cheap of course) and practice the removal process I've heard that the old Green PCI Hallmark slabs have PVC (that shower curtain smell) Is rinsing with distilled water a necessity eventhough acetone evaporates quickly? -mark
The true origin of the racketeer nickel. . . or is it? using gilded nickels for fraudulent purposes in 1883-85 that the Tatum story would certainly have circulated in the popular press if it had been at all widely known LeRoy Burnette, "Comments on Coins," Lima News (Lima, Ohio), June 24, 1961, p 31, contains a lengthy discussion of the "racketeer's nickel" (a term that was already in