JNimons
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Last Sunday I found a 3 cent piece. Still blows my mind! If you saw last Sundays post, you saw how toasted it was. I thought I could make out the date as 1853. I got a lot of comments on the forums and facebook about it being a counterfeit because of the corrosion. I'm pretty sure the coin was in a fire. Under magnification you can see the crust is superficial. Maybe I'm wrong and someone can point me in the right direction.
After about 15 hours the past week trying to clean this coin, (I know...it is sacrilegious to clean a coin, but what was it worth in the condition it was???) I an confident the coin is silver. I got a date, 1859. The obverse cleaned up way better then the reverse, but I'm not done. Part of the obverse looks as if it melted. It "blobbed" up around the date. Took a lot of magnification to make out a date.
Here are pictures ....
the Trime last Sunday just cleaned dry with a toothpick
After a couple days in lemon juice, and then olive oil, and some toothpick work
here are some after multiple hot baking soda baths and toothpick work. The back is being very stubborn.
Best picture of the date I could get under magnification, using a pair of high end 10x50 binoculars inverted, and my cell phone
Almost looks like the coin started to come apart at the date, and right above the date is what looks like a blob of melted metal.
So...whats your take.....real or fake? I think this one is real.
After about 15 hours the past week trying to clean this coin, (I know...it is sacrilegious to clean a coin, but what was it worth in the condition it was???) I an confident the coin is silver. I got a date, 1859. The obverse cleaned up way better then the reverse, but I'm not done. Part of the obverse looks as if it melted. It "blobbed" up around the date. Took a lot of magnification to make out a date.
Here are pictures ....
the Trime last Sunday just cleaned dry with a toothpick
After a couple days in lemon juice, and then olive oil, and some toothpick work
here are some after multiple hot baking soda baths and toothpick work. The back is being very stubborn.
Best picture of the date I could get under magnification, using a pair of high end 10x50 binoculars inverted, and my cell phone
Almost looks like the coin started to come apart at the date, and right above the date is what looks like a blob of melted metal.
So...whats your take.....real or fake? I think this one is real.
I know nothing of how to determine what,either way.....very cool!
