bryan115: It all depends on the coins you used. Many coins in great conditions will not suffer from Acetone dips. If however, the coin has been attacked chemically and part of the metal of the coin has now been removed by such a dipping, then the coin would not have come back as you described. Regardless of anything, any chemical, if you don't want to take chances on distruction of a coin, leave it alone. Of course on the other hand the more people distroy coins by cleaning, the more valuable mine become.
Just one more story. I took a 72D
Lincoln Cent, 88D
Jefferson nickel, 05 Liverty dime, 77
Roosevelt dime and 80
Washington quarter. All were well worn and kind of dirty.
On april 10, 2007 @5PM I emersed all in a glass beaker with Acetone just purchased from
Walmart's paint department in a metal can. I covered the beaker, put on a window sill inside my garage.
April 11 @ 5PM I moved the beaker outside and left in direct sunlight.
April 12 @ 3PM I removed all coins & allowed to dry on a redwood picnic table on my patio. No rinsing with anything.
April 12 @ 3:30PM I broguht al coins into the house.
Results were that the cent showed no change and still had a greenish stuff from when I first put it in. The Nickel and Quarter appeared cleaner but not by much and really not to noticable. The
Roosevelt dime has acquired a darkened shadowy area on the reverse but nothing on the obverse at all. Same with the 05 Dime.
I further rinsed those dimes with Vinegar and also no change. Still the darkened area on the reverses.
The summation of this experiment is that Acetone as a rule does little to a coin regardless of the coins composition. However, only my results, yours may vary.
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Posted 05/27/2007 12:11 am
