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Peckris 2

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    I told the auction house that I was a bona fide coin dealer, but they wanted to see proof.
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    *I* wish I'd worked in a dairy, but there's no use crying over... [hah, you saw that one coming a mile off]
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    Interesting selection Mick. 1. Isleys weren't really the Isleys until Ronald picked up his guitar! Good bit of pop though. 2. I do love a bit of dub. 3. No great fan of the blues here, especially the Howlin' Lee Waters variety.. 4. You culture vulture you! But who can argue with Mozart? Lovely.
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    I will try a bottle from the USA then Jerry - thanks for the offer, but sending things by post is a real difficulty these days!
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    Where do you get Verdi-care? I've looked online and it seems to be only American, with shipping costs greater than the product price! (And some sources say it's not easy to get since 2016).
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    It's not very big, but here goes: You can see it most on the teeth and rim next to the second N of PENNY.
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    Only a very very minor one, who had a postal list and a display cabinet in the local antiques centre. Yes, I've seen badly cleaned coins which is why I turned to olive oil and surgical spirit as I believed both were neutral. This thread has made me think again.
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    How would you do that?
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    I've used olive oil before! It's just that the comments here have given me the heebie jeebies.
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    I have the original backing track (no vocals) to God Only Knows, and it demonstrates what a genius Brian Wilson is; it's almost classical. Not sure what he'd make of the nose flute version!
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    Hmm. I was going to soak a high grade 1868 penny with a small bit of 'green', but now I'm wondering if there is an alternative to olive oil? I was going to use medicinal olive oil (BP) but I don't know if that makes a difference?
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    Yes, I agree. The 1919H is by far the commonest of the 1918 and 1919 H and KN pennies in lower grades, but it's even harder than 1918KN in top grade. My own is EF+ without lustre for circulation wear, but there is practically no hair detail as the die used must have worn considerably, and the hair is the highest point. It's possible the Mint supplied some obverse dies to Heatons in 1918 and few or none in 1919, so there was considerable re-use.
  13. Peckris 2
    Intriguing! I promise I won't be bored! However I don't doubt it's the same guy.
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    By the sound of the size (if that makes sense!), it could be a Maundy coin. Or a toy.
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    Interesting. It's exactly the same "Best Wishes" handwriting as on the letter he wrote to me in 2000, in which he signs himself "John".
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    Very worrying. However, I guess there's no oxidation if the coin is kept fully submerged in the oil, then gently wiped free of all traces on removal?
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    That's about the same grade as the one I bought from Richard. Very nice. I suppose if it was 1919KN we'd have to treble or quadruple the price, but those are very much rarer.
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    Ah, I get it now. It nevertheless looks very much bigger than the one depicted. Maybe it's a variant, I'm sure I can make out the FON part of the legend, and possibly the M in front?
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    A double horned horse? As to the find, the 'horse' (if such it be) looks very much bigger than the goat shown on the Sears Fonteia piece. But it does look a promising possibility.
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    Well, he succeeded in getting the coin noticed!
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    In UK you can buy Surgical Spirit, which I assume is meths without the dye?
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    True, but most cabinets (and all Nichols?) use inert woods like mahogany. As for the free flowing air, you may have a point there - the toning is nearly all on coins in the large cabinet, which I later found was a medals cabinet with comparatively deep trays and no individual recesses for coins.
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    Snap. For example, I have a 1938S shilling that was absolutely BU - now it has an uneven dirty black tarnish on parts of it despite storage in a cabinet. Pennies have lost a great deal of lustre. Strangely, coins in flips or albums don't seem to suffer. The upside is that my Unc 1838 shilling that was so glossy you might think it had been polished, is now toning back nicely. The other weird thing is that coins in my small Nichols cabinet (Mascle?) are largely unaffected.
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    No, believe me - it's not the alloy mix. However, it COULD be toning; I've seen pre-1920 silver tone to a whole range of colours - reds, oranges, blues, purples - and this could be toning due to its storage medium.
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