AAAAHHHHH!!!! This coin may cause me to break down and go to a chiropractor... or maybe a psychiatrist
So, now that I have that out of my system. I have spent hours (and hours) scrubbing, and picking. What I am finding is that there is this
pink layer FIRMLY adhered to the coin. I can't get under to
pick it off, even with a TINY 30 guage needle... and there is no way it is gently scrubbed off. If I take the edge of a rounded blade, get it to catch on
part of the
pink, and ever so carefully push, I can push a fleck of it off at a time. Then I can scrub away with a q-tip... not that it does any
good, but I do enjoy seeing the one little fleck of
pink so that I feel like I have gotten somewhere.
Unfortunately, there is no need for me to scrape the edge now as on one of these little pushes, it caught a lump and left a nice shiny
area right near the chin
Definately not silver all the way through. I wanted to go bury the coin in my backyard at that point, but I have decided to continue on. If I can ever uncover anymore of the coin, is there anyway to do anything about the shiny spot? I haven't seen any Jax silver color. Unless I can come up with a better way to clean this thing, I would bet there will be more spots. Sigh...
I have tried boiling in DW now, brushing with a toothbrush, scrubbing with a q-tip, and soaking in olive oil (it started with a 2 month soak and now overnights between my attacks). I have made little round circles with a flat blade, and the "pushing" thing with a blade I described above.... I do have some
gringott's conservator mix, but I was afraid it might be too harsh? I would be willing to try that if you thought it might be helpful. Course, I might try anything else that you thought would be helpful...
Here is a picture of progress so far...
Thanks for all of your time and advice! My family is pretty sure I have lost my mind, so it is
good to have a
forum where other people sit and
pick at dust particles on coins for hours at a time