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Cajunlady0: Those are bad but this is a ugly coin.  |
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Harshly cleaning these would make 99.99% of collectors reject them should you eventually decide to sell. In the right hands of a collector experienced in conservation, there could be hope for many of your coins. Those might sell at higher prices than you might think....but cleaned coins will definately be in the gutter.
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After seeing pictures I would leave them alone, the corrosion seems quite bad and trying to take it off would make them look worse in my opinion :(
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What would you do if they were yours? Be honest now! I'd give them to my nephew and get myself some nicer ones.  |
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Wow! Dr. Don.....is that a 1909 S ? Makes me want to cry.
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Yes;you read it right, but a bad 1909S is better than no 1909S. By the way ,I found it roll searching.
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Wow never clean your coins! Unless you are metal detecting and your coin is buried in earth... no need to do any more uncovering!
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Why are those dirty coins in 2x2's?  |
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Well, Lincolncentguy, the truth is because I did not know better. I had put all my old coins in them years ago. T thought I was protecting them. Back then, I did not want to have them loose to get damaged more.
NOW, 30 years later I am a "teenie tiny bit" smarter than I was back then. I will take them out and put them all in a tube labeled " give aways " or something like that, I guess.
Thirty years from now, I may not even remember what a coin is. But others will. (laughing out loud)
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Why are those dirty coins in 2x2's?
WHY? This is done to protect the invironment from them. Not to protect the coins from the invironment. As to cleaning any coins, try to remember exactly what is being done. Most of the time a coin that looks or appears dirty is in reality in a state where the outer layer has been involved in a chemical reaction with another substance. For example Copper combines with the air and humidity and even other substances. This means cleaning, or removing that outer layer, is actually removing some of the original coin. In many instances that outer layer of the coin also protects the coin from further contaminations. This is sort of like adding on many years of wear to that coin too. This is why on Antique Road Show programs they stress not cleaning anything old. So many want to restore an old table by sanding it down and redoing it but that only ruins it's originality. Think of coin cleaning as if you took those thousand year old Mummies in the Museum and gave them a bath or put them in a shower. And washed them with Palmolive Dish Soaps too.  Edited by just carl
01/02/2012 12:10 pm
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Cajunlady - to give you an idea, here are pictures of the front and back of a nickel that I pulled from pocket change a few days ago. It looks relatively clean but was, presumably, kept that way from having been circulated for about 70 years. I can't see the detail on the 1940 D you posted, but you can make the comparison. Note how worn the one I posted is from having been buffed by circulation. This is similar to the effect that certain cleaning methods have. Most collectors value sharpness of detail more than how clean looking the coin is. I would put both your 1940 D and this 1940 S into a set to say I had one but would prefer a 1940 S with more detail even if it were dirtier looking.   |
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I enjoy the look of a few blackened coins: something different. I have run a few in acetone, mostly to get after PVC and other nasty stuff. Now I also like to have some coins out of flips, just to play with and keep "in circulation," although that's just from one pocket to the other, in and out of drawers.
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polishing is not necessarily cleaning. And dipping a coin does not have to be Brasso. It is NOT one extreme or the other. And comparing removing tarnish from a coin to destroying a mummy is a bit off. When done properly it is not anything like that.
Now, as for the coins in question. Cajun, why are you saying you are ashamed? They are old coins. It happens. Keep them and dont worry over it. They are too messed up to easily restore, so just dont consider them front line pieces of your collection. Thats all.
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odd - must have used the same file name - the pics got switched!
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This is what I originally uploaded:   |
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