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Pillar of the Community
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I think you guys are right I think it is PVC. So soak in acetone for a week? Where can I get acetone?
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To Rachums107
You can get acetone at your local hardware store.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I think you guys are right I think it is PVC. So soak in acetone for a week? Where can I get acetone? NOW ... BE CAREFUL WITH ACETONE!
It is dangerous and hazardous material!
READ and HEED THE LABEL WARNINGS and DO BE CAREFUL.  Edited by TNG
11/13/2011 12:36 am
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Pillar of the Community
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i got my acetone at home depot, cant believe they sold it to a kid X(
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I wouldnt touch it...looks fine as is...never clean coins!  |
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 It looks fine to me for a 1909. I wouldn't touch it, especially if it is a hole filler. It seems well defined, and I'm not sure if you would add any value to it by doing anything to it. That being said, you shouldn't have any problems with acetone. Just make sure and blot the acetone off the coin when you are done, rinse in water and blot again. |
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Soaking a coin in acetone long-term is about the worst advice I've seen given on this forum. There isn't anything acetone can do for a coin in a week it couldn't do in a few seconds. Furthermore, my advice is not to use acetone at all on copper based coins - it changes the surface color and appearance, and is ALWAYS easy to tell if a cent has been chemically altered with acetone.
Get some verdi-care from badthad here on the forum and use it. Made for exactly what's going on with this coin, and it works.
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I dont want to change the look of the coin, I just want to get rid of the PVC contamination.
Verdi-care or acetone?
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I vote Verdi-care! I've had great results!
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Soaking a coin in acetone long-term is about the worst advice I've seen given on this forum. There isn't anything acetone can do for a coin in a week it couldn't do in a few seconds. Furthermore, my advice is not to use acetone at all on copper based coins - it changes the surface color and appearance, and is ALWAYS easy to tell if a cent has been chemically altered with acetone.
Get some verdi-care from badthad here on the forum and use it. Made for exactly what's going on with this coin, and it works.
Acetone, in the presence of light, is capanble of creating a reaction with copper that forms acetic acid. This will not happen if the acetone bath happens in the dark, but that kinda defeats the purpose of seeing if it worked.  Coppercoins is quite right, anyways - even though you could leave a coin in acetone forever, it wouldn't improve anything after the first few minutes. PVC removal from silver could take longer, but you'd want to be changing the solution every few minutes anyways. Another vote for Verdi-care here. |
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The only advice I gave was to be careful with acetone as it is a dangerous and hazardous material.
I specifically stated that I was not advising using it, but if that were my coin, that is probably what I would use.
BadThads Verdi-care works pretty well on some verdigris problems but does not work on removing PVC at all from my experience.
I have used 1 and 1/2 bottles on coins with both conditions.
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coppercoins, besides prpoer storage and the use of verdicare to remove verdigris from coins are there any other methods to proper conserve a coin that may have surface debris or some other detracting value?
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If you really want it to look better....Do not do anything to it...Just send it to me and I will put it in my album and take artistic photos for ya!   |
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+1 for jayman, got a kick out of that
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