ageka

I swithced off my NOFLASH and they still do'nt dance

Kitch

I am a magpie

Only goldcoins

Ah, I can see where it "popped" in.

Yes because you know and because the coin is not in motion

But be assured in ones hand and kept in motion it is invisible

The pic the scan shows is like a 10X magnification

I have some real and fake and I had to shake them to be sure which

was the real and wich was the fake

This is a shell coin

The unseen inside side is a copper penny

Hahaha, I have seen so many of those "magicians" coins. I don't know if I can tell the difference between a genuine error one or such.

I have several myself having been a close up magician

Some of these coins are incredably good like like an englis halfcrown

I have

There are also expanded shells that will fit over any normal coin

I think that 15 x0.9 is right

Because on the 50 pesos I have it says oro puro

I cannot weigh the medal because it is not mine (yet )

Can anyone tell me wheter this medal is 15 gram pure gold or 15 gram multiplied by 0.900

It says 15 gr oro ley 900

I started 1959

Coin articles written by uninformed "journalists" are irksome.  They always refer to a coin's "state of preservation" as if the darn things rot unless they're given constant care.

Hehe they probably remember museum exibits in formaldehyde to conserve them

Both are nice. Are you bidding on these?

No the guy has zero feedback and I do not risk that

I am not into ships but into proofs

Here is two Italian 2003 ship proofs

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...8314034619&rd=1

When I was 12 my godfather gave me a liberty double eagle

and I became a magpie

Yuck, that is very horrible. Must be some horrible silver/copper plating devices used to strike the gold coins. Bad quality checking.

 

Citrus acid wouldn't necessary help, as it may dissolve some of the copper away, but it will not do anything with the silver. I was about to suggest nitric acid, but I REALLY don't know the results, as it does seperate the silver off from gold too but I don't know how the final result would be like...

 

Geez, what kind of coin do you have there ageka?

I got microspots that only show up under 10X maginification but that german forum has a pic of a 1 gram minibar with a huge red spot

I was told the citric acid woud remove the silversulfide

Nitric is too dangerous for copper content of 10% in the spots

first pic on the page

http://www.goldseiten-forum.de/thread.php?threadid=1849&sid=

I read in a German forum that a several 9999 german gold coins had red spots

A university investigated them with X rays and established the spots were

84 % silver 10 % copper and 5 % gold and were probably silversulfide

It was assumed the spots were only a few molecular layers thick and were impurities of the planchet makers who made silver blanks and gold blanks

So assuming my coin is spotted not with acrylic paint but with silversulfide I seam to find that one of the possible treatment is citric acid µ

I know nothing about silver any suggestions ?

Acetone has never caused a reaction on any metal I've dipped in it.  It's an organic solvent, not an acid or alkali.  .900 fine or .917 is what all the old gold coins I have are.  I've never  seen any struck in .580 which is what 14k works out to be.  That would be kid of a debased alloy for coin gold.

 

  Maybe you should try the jeweler's standby of a strong solution of sudsy ammonia on the paint spatters.  That seems to clean a lot of things from jewelry, even adhesions that have resisted other cleaners.

28 plain

I heard about ammonia for silver I think

What is sudsy ammonia ? is it concentrated ammoniumhydroxite NH4OH ?

That is indeed correct. Papas is a way to refer to potatos. Papas Fritas = Fried Potatos

 

Senior Year Spanish Baby!

 

-Bobby

I only know spanish from my yearly vacations in Spain and like 500 hours of selfstudy

So it probably is like a Hot Dog I have two cocker spaniels but I would not eat them and if I did not know it was a Frankfurter I would wander

So Papas Fritas works for me

I only wander they know what it is in Spain

Like in spain they use the word Coger= take very much I am told in south america it is totally different in meaning (lol)

Fjord I never heard that explanation before but it makes sense

However in my limited spanish I think you just fried the pope

or somebody's father <_<

I think it should be Patatas Fritas

In Belgium every village as at least one trailer selling French Fries I talked to these guys and they use like 11 mm cutting machines and of course the fat is their secret because it gives the final taste

I also do not understand why in England they call them Chips (like in fish and chips) and I was kind of amazed the first time I saw them put vinigar on the fries

en de patatten met mayonaise

That is about the only thing you cannot export

french fries with mayo you have to eat on the spot

and I have to confess I like the sugared mayo from holland better

then ours

I never understood why people call them french fries

Now I have a cleaning question and do not forget I have no access to eZest nor MS70 dip

And don't ask how come

I have a gold coin purity 9999 in proof top quality

This coin got micropaintspots from an airbrush on it

Might be acrylic paint

I tried Acetone, Methylethylketone,Toluene, Ethylacetate; CMK100, white spirit

cellulose thinner, and hot water and liquid soap

I have thricloroethylene and cola on my next try it list

Does any of you have any experience with phosphoric acid ?

I know that Nitric acid is not nice to copper but at 9999 purity would that matter ?

I love to experiment

Must move to Belgium....

 

Belgium chocolate... mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Sorry, off topic.

 

Belgium gold coins...

Well two out of three ain't bad

You forgot Belgian beer

And I mean cooled and strong

OMG WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! I must now move to your place... O_O

I am Belgian and also post on a German forum

And I allready got reported back from half a dozen Germans

daytripping and buying gold here and liking the low prices

Gxseries

Not only do I not get taxed

I can buy a lot of coins at meltprice at money exchangers

like maples, krugers, nuggets, goldeagles

sovereigns, 20 BF , 20 FF , vrenellis and 10 Florins

Er no, it's not necessary true. It depends on the gold alloy. If you have coins that's at least .900, dipping gold coins in acetone is pretty hard to tell. It isn't very true if you have a 14k gold coin, but that is still called "gold".

Sorry we have an intercontinental language barrier

It is in some countries like in France illegal to call anything gold that is not at least

18 karat

And I never bought a coin that is less then 900/1000 since those are considered

non investor material and induce taxation of like 8 %

Some overzealous custom people even made me pay tax on a double eagle bought in Switzerland because they considered you had to have 901/1000

to be exempt or some such

I do not consider a gold coin dipped in acetone as cleaned

I dipped twice to remove fingerprints on two coins that were shipped with fingerprints on them because if the coin is not 999 gold the fingerprint may etch in the copper

However I have read that artificially toned silver will lose the completely toning and that should be a surprise if you did not know it was artificially toned

The product in PVC that causes damage is the plasticizer ( an Adipate I think )

Acetone will remove plasticizer very quickly