NCS Conservation of the Month (June 08)

[DJCoinz]

Link to article.

 

Before:

 

After:

[NoTwilight]

After the thorough bashing ATS, it would have been fun to pust the after as a blind "guess the grade". I bet the comments would have been much more positive. --Jerry

[gmarguli]

I don't like either, but I find the before to be completely unattractive.

[cpm9ball]

Check out the doubling on the reverse.

 

Chris

[James_OldeTowne]

This is a coin I would pass on either way.

[relicsncoins]

I'm not much of a fan of dipped circulated coins.......call me crazy, but I like the before better.

 

JJ

[harvey8542]

Neither one is doing it for me

[Coindude]

Ugly before, uglier after. Total lack of character after the dip.

[coinman1794]

The coin probably wasn't dipped, but conserved with other chemicals. It's not bright white and it has a number of faint dark areas remaining, like you would see if treated with other chemicals. Also, the description says it still looks "natural." That's a stretch, and I don't like the coin before or after, but I'm guessing it wasn't actually dipped.

[MikeInFL]

It went from very ugly to just plain unappealing, in my eyes. An improvement, for sure, but not something to write home about, to me. Frankly, I find it odd that they would choose this as the example.....Mike

[BankNote1]

It looks to me that NCS did as good as they could with what was sent to them. Would anyone think they would be able to make the coin a gem? Also the coin looks Unc. to me. 1923-S's can get pricey in AU and better. Also early Walkers don't look like 1940's walkers either. The piece is also an "S" mint of which just about everything coming out of the S.F. mint in the '20's was weakly struck.

[cpm9ball]

I guess nobody cares about the doubling.

 

Chris

[gmarguli]

What doubling?

[cpm9ball]

Maybe my vision is getting worse, but it looks like doubling on HALF DOLLAR, the designer's initials, the eagles left leg feathers and the left wing and feathers. I can't be sure if it is machine doubling, but the "F" in HALF doesn't look like machine doubling.

 

Chris

[physics-fan3.14]

I didn't notice the doubling till you mentioned it, Chris, but it does look kinda cool. It looks like machine doubling to me though.

[gmarguli]

I see it in the after pic, but not the before. Probably an illusion.

[cpm9ball]

I see it in the after pic, but not the before. Probably an illusion.

 

I increased the "before" image 400%, but there is so much crud around the letters that it is impossible for me to tell.

 

In any event, I don't llike the way the coin looked "before", and I definitely wouldn't want it "after".

 

Chris