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New Member
United States
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First, can this problem spread to other coins? If so, how can I stop it from spreading? I'm talking about bulk tubes, boxes etc. and not individual coins for a collection. I have copper, nickel, partial silver, and all silver coins that I want to protect. I have been reading other posts about "verdicare". But I don't know if that is the best choice and also cost for doing large #s of coins. Any help or assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks P.S. I really need to get a better user name  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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It can spread, if you notice a coin has it get it out of the tube and either with other coins that have it too or isolate it.
From what I understand vedicare is good, but my experience with the veridgris is roll hunting where I just put them back into circulation unless theyre silver
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Yes it can spread...
Verdicare is pretty darn good too... I imagine from one bottle you can treat an aweful lot of coins too because really you only need a couple of drops and a rub with a lintless cloth and the problem is gone.
The best way to protect against it is airtight packaging. Keeping coins in jars etc where the air can circulate around them is asking for trouble since it will spread from one coin to all of them given time.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Verdicare is pretty darn good too... Amen!   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 Kind of a lot of information left out. What type of coins are you referring to, US or foreign? What do you mean by Tubes? ARe you saying you have them all in tubes or in 2x2's or loose in boxes? Are the Copper, Silver, etc all mixed together? Your subject matter says Vertigris and corrosion. Are some of the coins already showing this or are you just wanting to stop it from ever happening? For one thing, never mix different types of coins together if you don't have to. By that I mean do not have Copper coins in contact with Nickel ones. Or Silver with Copper. It is always best to keep coins separate from other ocins if possible. Placing them in separate 2x2's or Albums, etc. is always better than having them bump together. |
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Thanks for all your responses. I'm talking about U.S. 20th century coins that I have in bulk storage. I have lots of pennies with these issues, but also some dimes, quarters, and halves. I don't see much if any of this on nickels. None are worth much as collection coins. I am holding on to them at least long enough to search for errors or until I see a favorable condition to sell them. Some are in plastic coin tubes, in paper rolls, and in cigar boxes. They are all separated by denomination and variety ( wheats separate from LMC and Merc's apart from Roos). I am not trying to improve them, I just want to contain and stop further spreading. Thanks again for any suggestions that you might have. Tom |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Lincoln Cent Lover!VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/
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United States
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"Verdicare is pretty darn good too" I just got a bottle of this. It really works as advertised. I tried it on several problem coins with amazing success.  I have a fairly large bag of wheat's I need to go through on my next set of days off to treat the verdigris infected. |
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