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Valued Member
United States
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Have you lost your marbles? Cleaning coins is one of the numismatic taboos! If I were you I would acquire another half dollar in a better stage of condition & replace the half dollar your currently own.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Its yours do with it what you want!! But if you do post a after picture!!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yeah, be sure to show us how much "better" you made it
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I do so love the mob mentality of do not clean. Its like the possessed people in The Mummy only instead of shuffling and saying I'm Ho Tep, you all chant Do Not Clean.
YES, clean the coin! Acetone does NOTHING to the coin and will CLEAN it. Soaking it in distilled water prior to the acetone may help CLEAN the coin. And, if you have experience, using E Z Est may help as well. If you do NOT have experience with dip, then this is the coin to use to learn.
Now, if by clean you mean taking a cloth or brush or brillo pad (that was VACookeys contribution) or a dremel to the coin, then NO, that would just be stupid.
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New Member
United States
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I don't understand the comments that cleaning will reduce the value. This coin is worth silver melt. Dip the coin. Still worth melt. Torch it. Still worth melt. Take bolt cutters and chop it into small pieces. Still worth melt. To a coin with numismatic value (IMO this coin does not have) cleaning the coin would be detrimental to it's value. But if the coin is and will always be a scrap silver coin, how will doing anything to it reduce that value? Even melting it into a square blob will still retain the original precious metal value.
So why are people saying that cleaning THIS coin will reduce it's value?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's your coin. It's worth melt. If you don't like the way it looks clean it. By the time a circulated common date Franklin has any numismatic value either the world will be overrun by zombies or the TPG's will have developed technologies to tell if a coin has even been out of the mint cello or ever spit on or touched and they will be able to tell you by whoa s the government will have cataloged everyone's fingerprints and DNA and ancestral DNA by then. |
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Valued Member
United States
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You bought the coin..do with it as you wish. I personally would make it a pocket piece and show it off, you'd be surprised how many people don't know there ever was a Franklin half. A few months of traveling around in your pocket won't do this coin any harm..it may even improve it's looks. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Take it to a jeweler have him dip it for you and I guarantee you will have a great pocket piece or put it in a bezel and get a nice silver chain. I did the same with my birth year and it always get comments when I wear it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Dip it clean it love it collect it sell it for its still remaining silver value and who knows maybe you have a rare DDO DDR? Its yours enjoy it ugly or perhaps amazing clean and nice |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I do so love the mob mentality of do not clean. Its like the possessed people in The Mummy only instead of shuffling and saying I'm Ho Tep, you all chant Do Not Clean.  Hit the nail on the head and I got a good laugh out of it. Cleaning a piece of silver that will only ever be worth silver - cleaned or not - is not a big deal. However it can be a good thing that people like Imhotep. This way the answer people will get when they don't seek out an online forum is defaulted to a choice which might save a good coin from being ruined. |
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United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Try to remember that in most instances people do not have coin cleaning materials around. Spending time, money for gas in your car, buying something to just clean a coin or two, is rather nuts. In your case you would end up spending many dollars to clean a coin that would end up being worth a dollar or so. Plus you would now have stuff laying around that you just don't need unless your planning on going into the coin cleaning buisness.  Now that is an idea.  We have cleaners for cloths, furnature, cars, etc. But nothing in the way of a coin cleaning store. Think I'll open one. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I wonder if he ever cleaned it ?
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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