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For me, when I was a kid, it was Lincoln Cent versus Pencil Eraser.  |
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Canada
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But what is your story 'SPP-Ottawa'? I don't have a story. I had an uncle who collected coins, and instilled the "never clean your coins" into my head at the very beginning. Of course, I experimented, and some coins you can "clean", meaning removing organic matter with acetone or using a cactus thorn to clean out the "gunk" from an 1859 Canadian large cent to see if the 9 was a variety... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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United States
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Let's just say that the bad things I know about thiourea are empirical data.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Guilty as charged your honour with no explanation!  !!!!! Boy did I love chemistry class in school! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Tabasco sauce on common LMCs.
Edit: Just remembered, there are a couple common LWCs in my Dansco that have the Tabasco'd look to them. Not sure if that was me, but they'll go whenever I get around to working on that set.
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12/29/2014 12:00 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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As already stated this poll should have been separated by age. The reason is a long time ago it was considered the right thing to do with a coin collection. I still remember so many people telling me to clean up my coins so they would look nicer. Battery acid was one of my favorite cleaners. Also, many other items such as baking soda and water. Back some time ago it was the thing to do.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A former dealer showed me how to shine up coins by rubbing the surfaces with baking soda. Ruined a few silver dollars and a barber half.
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United States
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Unfortunately I knew better but at the time I didnt think that it would make a difference in the value, but now I know it does
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I watched an experiment on "Beakman's World" where he took old brown pennies & put them in a jar of water with copious amounts of salt. Stirred with a spoon & the tiny salt molecules that dissolved in the water act as an abrasive & clean the pennies to "like new" (not really) conditions. They were however super shiny & red. I must've cleaned hundreds of pennies in this manner. I was about 10 years old.
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New Member
United States
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Brasso'd the whole LWC collection :( But I can tell those suckers from a mile away now thats for sure ;) |
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United States
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Quote: Brasso'd the whole LWC collection :(  Quote:
But I can tell those suckers from a mile away now thats for sure ;) I am sure you can. Are they pepto-pink?  You made a necro-bump, but at least you added something personal.  |
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United States
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Yep I have sadly cleaned coins to make them shiny. the first Wheat penny that pretty much got me in to collecting I cleaned and made it all shiny. Welp you live and learn I guess. :/ |
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United States
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Do you still have it?
You could make it a pocket piece and over time it should turn a more natural brown.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I had more of a habit of buying cleaned coins than personally cleaning them. One of my first acquisitions was an 1806 1/2d that has been polished up to a button.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My father was a collector so he taught from the beginning not to clean or shine coins. Have dipped many in acetone but that's all.
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