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New Member
United States
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Salutations everyone! I know that cleaning your coins is a practice that is quite often frowned upon. However,I was recently looking through my coins, and noticed I had this 1960 Franklin half dollar that looked awfully dirty! Any advice from anyone would be much appreciated!   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1795 Posts |
That would go in my scrap silver pile or if you clean it use it for jewelry would be my advice.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1659 Posts |
I would just leave it alone and then get 19 more of them so I could put a full roll in my silver stash  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1511 Posts |
 with the others... I personally wouldn't clean it... But I suppose it wouldn't matter much of you did because as mentioned its really only worth about melt/scrap anyways. But personally I'd just leave it as is even if it is "junk" silver. I'd rather an honest toned coin over a cleaned one.. even in my silver pile. The toning tells a story in history and it has character... I think it looks much better than if it was artificially polished/cleaned up, but that's just me, to each his own...  |
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Valued Member
Canada
453 Posts |
Cleaning it would not be a good investment of your time and efforts. Having said that, I have, on occasion, cleaned coins of little (or no) collector value, just to please my own eye. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1812 Posts |
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Salutations everyone! I know that cleaning your coins is a practice that is quite often frowned upon. However  If cleaning junk 90% silver coins is frowned upon, wait till I upload some photos of what I've done with them (it involves a plumbers torch).  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8515 Posts |
Ha, I wanna see !
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Moderator
 United States
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Leave it alone. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
898 Posts |
Hey all, was searching around and dug this up.
I was curious about acetone, would it do anything here.
I'm just trying to learn more and was wondering if that'd help in this type of situation or not. Thanks if anyone sees this.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
There are some patches of dirt and muck on the obverse that would most likely be removed with acetone but the reverse just appears to be heavily patinated/tarnished so acetone would not do anything there.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3453 Posts |
So I am going to play a little devils advocate here  . (disclaimer: I have never cleaned a coin)It depends on the purpose of the cleaning. If you are wanting to increase the value of the coin, my answer would be no. This will not achieve that purpose with this particular coin. If you want practice on cleaning coins or just experiment with it AND you would not be upset if the results were disastrous, by all means try it. Understand that cleaning coins most likely will result in decreased value. There are members who have done so and posted before and after pictures that really show what can be achieved but they have plenty of experience doing so and are usually doing it for personal preference reasons.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8137 Posts |
Short answer- NO!
long answer- NO!
in other words, leave it the way it is!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3755 Posts |
I would acetone that sucker and go from there. The reverse is likely not going to come clean from that. Depending on how thick that stuff is on the reverse dipping it after may or may not help.
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Valued Member
United States
455 Posts |
Have you lost your marbles? Cleaning coins is one of the numismatic taboos! If I were you I would acquire another half dollar in a better stage of condition & replace the half dollar your currently own.
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Posted 06/25/2013 8:44 pm
