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Is This PVC On The Capped Bust?

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 Posted 09/13/2013  9:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Steelers72 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks everyone for taking the time to explain for me!

Now, would it be a good idea to put all my capped busts in acetone even if they don't have pvc on them just in case they do?

I appreciate all of this help, it really means a lot!
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BadThad's creation is the only appropriate solution for a numismatist facing verdigris on a coin. I believe this coin must be treated as a PVC byproduct infestation first; it looks more like PVC than verdigris and PVC is the more pressing possible problem.

Get this coin into acetone, stat. Take the one day it'll involve to research this forum for the appropriate use of acetone; we discuss it frequently here and I (among others) have expended significant verbiage concerning the safe usage of it. Acetone is a substance which is only safe for usage by an informed user; the casual practitioner stands a good chance of both wrecking his lungs and burning the entire neighborhood down. Don't be that guy.
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Thanks for the info. I've used corrosive chemicals without problems as I've taken Organic Chemistry and lab during college back in the day; but this usage when it comes to coins is something new to me. I've always viewed putting coins in any sort of liquid as cleaning/damaging but the members of this forum have proven to me that acetone is safe.

I'll be using a mask and goggles but now my one last question is once it is done soaking (I'll keep it in there for an hour or two- no harm in that) how should I go about removing the coin from the glassware I will be using?

I read up on this forum and watched some videos online, but I really do not want to be using tweezers or porcupine quills (haha) to do this. Would simply taking the coin out of the glassware with my hands and placing it on an old, but soft, hand towel to dry suffice?

Did anyone on this forum make a demonstration video on using Acetone on coins?

I appreciate all the help and advice.
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 Posted 09/14/2013  01:01 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Steelers72 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
How is this method? Of course, I'll be using pure acetone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13IsKehQwEw
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Acetone will take off the luster if you allow it to stay in too long, so even with it take care.
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 Posted 09/14/2013  11:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
Acetone will take off the luster if you allow it to stay in too long, so even with it take care.


Absolutely wrong. Completely mistaken, and a disservice to spread such nonsense. Acetone is chemically incapable of interacting with a silver coin.
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Yep!

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