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Moderator
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Sometimes it's best not to clean them at all. Sometimes they look better even with the dirt as long as you can make out the details.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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very nice baltas! super silvering...what a great payoff for 5 hours of time.
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Thanks! Yes! :) This was the best in this lot: (middle row, the first from right)  |
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Good work !!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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now that's a nice lookin' uncleaned lot. you can tell that dirt will actually come off, and you can see good details underneath.
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United States
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Nice silvering remaining on that coin.
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United States
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It is very interesting to see the transformation. Just wish you guys will give more detail about what you used and how. Thats part of the story. When you silver something exactly what do you use?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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silvering isn't something you do to a coin, it's something the coin possess. you can see those "flashes" of silver under gunk of the very dirty lot picture on that coin.
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United States
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well, here's the last 3 of the lot of 10 coins I purchased back in december. before..   and after...   the two on the left cleaned up nicely, but are just poor quality coins. for uncleaned lot coins...they're pretty darn good. for LRB in general...not so much. the one on the right is a really rough vrbs roma...i gave up on it. I could clean it up more, but it's just not worth it to me. value or appearance isn't really going to be improved, at least not at the cost of effort..not for me anyway. that one goes in the cull bag. the other two go in pile of coins to sell for dirt cheap in bulk on ebay. Edited by chrsmat71
04/28/2014 9:57 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Chris, yours all look better than the uncleaned coins I tried. Perhaps cleaning just isn't my thing. One look around my home should've clued me into that...
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Just wish you guys will give more detail about what you used and how Yes I agree with is , I'm still trying to do mine, I don't know if I'm doing the right thing or not, but can see things coming out now, will do a one month pic soon. Chris what is this wax you do  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i just use distilled water, a toothbrush, and a needle..sometimes toothpicks. take them out of the water every so often (can't go wrong with time interval, do it as much or as little as you want). sometimes I add a small dab of dish soap, especially when they first go in.
the coins in this thread have minwax finishing paste on them, it's a microcrystalline wax. when if first started cleaning coins I read some threads form coin collectors and people using on artifacts, and could buy it at the local store. I don' endorse it, or use it on my more expensive coins. it's very similar to renaissance wax, and much cheapter, but has a slight pigment in it (not at all visible on coins), and some have said they are uncertain as to its safety on coins. I very much doubt if it matters to be honest, but if you're going to use wax, I would suggest going ahead and getting the renaissance wax. in the future i'll use verdi-care as as a protectant on any coin I have of any value.
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04/29/2014 8:36 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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I reformulated the original Coin Care product for safe copper cleaning.
John Lorenzo
United States
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