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Pillar of the Community
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Steel wool  . |
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Pillar of the Community
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OMG!  just kidding, but seriuosly, dont clean them!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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"How to clean coins?" Not with steel wool! |
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That's great advice from Eg - you can pick up a tin of acetone at the hardware store for $10. I think you'll find that for a lot of them a quick dip will get rid of most of the crud. Get some cloth towels to clean them with - and like he said, DON'T RUB them. =)
For the ones with worse goo, let them soak - for a few minutes or for a few hours. Most of it should come off.
PLEASE DO BE CAREFUL WHEN USING ACETONE. It's HIGHLY flammable.
Cool? =)
And yeah, welcome!! :D
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Pillar of the Community
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If you had to use steel wool, it is quite possible what you see as grime is really black silver corrosion, and acetone will not help that. So if after using acetone, they are still black, their value is decreased , even if you use a silver dip to try and remove some of the black. If you do decide to remove some of the black if the acetone didn't, use a silver dip made for coins and not one for silverware or candlesticks such as tarn-x, etc.
Photos after the acetone would be good to evaluate.
Acetone removes water so well from the metal, I use it as the final rinse allowing to air dry rather than touching it with any cloth. Of course these sound rather more damaged than a few cloth marks.
Coal smoke, dust, etc. often has high sulfur content that causes rapid corrosion.
Edited by desertgem
06/24/2011 8:25 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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If at the least I hope that four ought "OOOO" steel wool was used. Not recommended using steel wool period on coins but
OOOO will not even leave a sign of a scratch on chrome, gold,
porcelain, glass, stainless steel etc. It even takes crap off of a brand new car paint finish or new paint job.
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Pillar of the Community
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DO NOT CLEAN
Its as simple as that!
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Valued Member
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Please stop cleaning the coins! You are hurting the my heart, I am just a collector, not a investor. The Acetone is the right thing to try if you could, please take a photo with close ups. You might have some valuable coins there, especially if they were hidden. Look at this forum every day, you will learn a lot about coins. And by the way, Welcome
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Steel wool... :o
You should have used acid just the same.
WOW!
What if some of those Morgans were keys!
Do not clean them. Period!
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Valued Member
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Feel free to send me your coins, I'll let you know that they're just junk candy wrappers ;)
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Pillar of the Community
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and when you get dont NOT cleaning them-- how about some pics?
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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Pillar of the Community
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The absolute worst thing that you could do to a coin is clean it! And if they were hidden, you might even have some serious money over there!
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Bedrock of the Community
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Steelwool? OUCH! The coins are bullion now and have no numismatic value. DO NOT DO THIS TO THE OTHER COINS! Collectors would rather have black coins than ones improperly cleaned.
Lincoln Cent Lover!VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/
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Bedrock of the Community
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 Odd so many don't bother to welcome new members anymore. STEEL WOOL? What grade was the steel wool?  Not that it matters but there are numerous grades of steel wool yet none are specified for coin cleaning. Could have just as easily used a Brass Wire Wheel on a bench grinder.  I suggest you do a Search on the Search tab at the top for coin cleaning, Acetone, cleaning coins, etc. Should be lots of previous posts on all the goods and bads. |
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