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Valued Member
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That coin will need acid.
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Pillar of the Community
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Looks like a Hurricane Sandy survivor I bought off ebay. Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
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No improvement after 24 acetone bath. Actually looks worse to my eyes with the new shiny contrast. No harm no foul, instead I learned a lot about using acetone from reading so many threads last night. Cheers for all the responses BEFORE  AFTER  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks for showing the before and after images of your Morgan for our benefit. The thought of treating coins makes us all nervous, and your case helps us learn.
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Bedrock of the Community
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That coin is a goner. It looks like an old cleaning actually caused the damage.
I always recommend starting with distilled water.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Due to what I see I would consider a jewlery cleaner. At Walmart they sell a few varieties of that. One is primarily for Silver Jewlery. I've used it on Silver coins that too looked like yours and it worked great. Remember, once this is done, it will always be a cleaned coin but if looking better than that, only could be an improvement. |
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JC, That is ironic. I just sold my jewelry store a couple of years ago and actually have all of the jewelry cleaner types from Walmart packed away somewhere. I will give that a go and see what happens. Cheers, -Kurt Edited by Biancasdad
02/15/2014 2:13 pm
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The usual choice for stripping a coin is thiourea - we call it "dip" in the hobby - and the resulting coin is, of course, worth only silver value. I generally don't favor its' use, especially by a less-experienced collector, but this coin is so far gone I'm not going to recommend against it.
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Officially cleaned with the jewelry cleaner for silver. I am happy with this result. Coin was bought in a lot of old US silver basically for the bullion content anyway. Now it will look nicer as it sits in my hoard stash until my 2 year old daughter wants to cash in it after I croak   |
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Yeah, much more betterer. This was a "Who cares if you do?" kinda coin, anyway.
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Pillar of the Community
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Much nicer, Biancasdad. At least every time you look at the dollar from now on you won't be thinking to yourself: there's something stuck on that coin. I'll try jewelry cleaner the next time I have a coin like this, thanks to your tests.
Edited by Classic Coins
02/17/2014 12:09 am
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Pillar of the Community
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You're welcome CC. 35 years ago I took an eraser to a Wheat penny and haven't "cleaned" a coin since until this one, lol |
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Absolutely thanks! I have a couple like this one and I'm gonna give it a try. As SSuperddave says... It's a lost coin anyway. Only bought if for silver anyway.
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Rest in Peace
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Now it will look nicer as it sits in my hoard stash until my 2 year old daughter wants to cash in it after I croak   You can't take it with you! |
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Wish I saw this thread earlier. Instead of jewelry cleaner you should have looked for a polivit plate. Its a sacrificial metal cleaning plate. You make a solution of warm water and household soda put the plate in the solution and then put the coin in the solution ensuring it touches the plate. The oxidation on the coin is reversed while the metal in the plate is corroded. It can take a corroded silver coin back to new in less than 10 seconds and is ideal for that coin of yours. the great thing is it doesn't involve adding silver as it just simply reverses the oxidation process. You could still try it out on that coin... once you have reversed the oxidation you need to ensure you wash off the electrolytic solution and then dry the coin by washing it in acetone. I believe the plate is made of Zinc.
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02/17/2014 10:20 am
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