1943D 1mm-001

[Duckhawk]

I posted this coin on another site a few weeks ago. I found it in a lot of mixed date wheats i picked up on ebay. My question is, how should i store it? Is there anything i should do to help maintain the surfaces?

Thanks
Mike

[Bennie]

wow...nice coin...great luck!

[eagames]

Nice find.

I guess just avoid moisture and heat.
I've seen that some 43 cents grow oxide in holders when stored. I don't know the reason why some do and some don't. Your coin already has some skin so it might be less reactive.

Good Luck!!!!

[coop]

I'm not a big fan of coin slabbing. But if I had this one I would have it slabbed. That would probably protect it better as it would keep hand off the coin that way. Nice 1943D-1MM-001.

[Dick]

I agree with Coopp, and wonder if a coat of lacuer would help. The idea, obviously, is to remive any way that air, (oxygen), can get to it, being steel, and prone to rust. Nice find! keep it up.
Dick

[coop]

Forget the lacquer. It only messes up the coin in later life. Keep it El Naturel.

[Dick]

One last question: Has it been restored? I ask becaust LittletonCoins has a lot of them that they send out with orders. The way to tell, is check the edges for any dings, etc. It is nithing but an "altered coin, if it has been redtored.

[Duckhawk]

Thanks everyone. I may have to send this one in to be slabbed, but i think i will put it in an air tite for now and wait until i can have it looked at before i spend the $.

Mike

[Bob P]

This coin is 67 years old now, and looks great! I wouldn't get too wrapped up about trying to 'over protect' it. The storing techniques used up to this point have proven to be very effective.
Air and light are the enemies of the coin surfaces. An air-tite container would do just great at this point.

[ken]

Very nice find.I would also have it slabbed.

[Dick]

Bob, re your comment about the restoring techniques, is the restoration that has been done, to the three coin set, (P-D-S) that littleton uses, (Not their doing, but they move the sets). Is this not altering, as i had understood? I thought these coins were not useful other than "cosmetics", due to the "restoring of the coating, or what ever. thanbks for tyour thoughts,

[Bob P]

Dick, You are absolutely correct. This is not restoration though. A lot of the 1943 sets Littleton sells are the reprocessed coins. It is relatively easy to spot them too (way too shiny, and with a bluish tint to them. In my book, the reprocessing looks nice, but completely destroys any value the coins had