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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Vedi-care has 2 bottles for total of 10.oo Does a person need to apply both the 1 and #2 liquid, how far apart time wise? do yu wipe off again? I think I know a man in my city I can buy a bottle from..........Doesn't sound overly expensive if a bottle will last for a while.....What compositions of metal coins need this V.fluid....
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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like the vast majority will tell you, the only time to clean a coin is to stop any further existing environmental damage from happening to a coin that is historically worth keeping, or one that has a high enough value to warrant conservation. anything else is pretty much ruining a coin.
the rusty coins are basically worthless unless you want to play and learn. you can't do any more damage to them (collectability wise) than has already been done. making them shiny won't make others want them (in fact just the opposite)
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12/28/2013 2:48 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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PS: the 2 bottles of verdicare/verdigone are 2 bottles of the same solution, NOT part A and part B
save your money (sorry BadThad!) - you don't need cleaning chemicals.
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12/28/2013 2:46 pm
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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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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I tried the seasalt and vinegar thing...ugh! Nice try. You kust have been reading some of the zillion posts here about all the STUFF to use cleaning. With yours you forgot the Pepper. And too could have put some raisens and Bacon bits on top. OOOOOOPSSSSSSS. I was thinking you were making a salad, not cleaning coins. Sure would be fun to list all the STUFF people have used on coins. Some of my favorites are things you just know will not work or will distroy a coin. Strong acids of almost any kind will take off as much dirt as you want. And also, usually don't have to worry about that coin being recognized ever again. All joking aside, sure would be nice to have a cleaning coins forum. And it could start with DON'T!!!!!! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Has the OP mentioned anything else on this topic?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Has the OP mentioned anything else on this topic? Like the new cleaning process with pepper, oregan and olive oil? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am new to collecting as well. I belive I have made 2 mabey major mistakes with the cleaning thing. First was to try the 'lemon juice' thing and the second was thinking leaving them soak in 'TAP' Water would be o.k.
Boy was I wrong. My tap water soak after about a week turned a lincon into a stinker real fast. Left white powder spots and such all over them. Now I'm afraid to try anything.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Like the new cleaning process with pepper, oregan and olive oil? I saw it featured on Bill Nye The Science Guy. "Make your coins look twice as better kids!"  |
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United States
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What about rubbing the coin with the pencil eraser?  Ah whatever, I messed up a few Morgans years ago and I think a lot of people have damaged coins with the idea of improving their coins. Its starts with good intentions but ends bad because of a lack of knowledge. Family member took the Morgans and other goodies away from me after they saw what I did. I really didn't object because they know a lot more than I do about coins and collectibles. Good thing too because fixing the seated liberty stuff was next on my to do list.  Reason why I don't spend too much time learning about the classic coins on this site is I really don't want to know how much value I destroyed. But I like the advice I've been reading from people on this site, either sell the coin if you don't like it or get the urge to mess with it, let it go back into circulation or just put it off somewhere and leave it alone or send it off to a professional to see if something can be done to conserve the coin. These "do it yourself" cleanings/conservations usually do not work out well for people, especially beginners. |
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United States
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I know that cleaning Copper coins changes how it reacts to the environment. Question is how was/is copper processed from the time it comes from the ground until its minted into a coin? Is the copper washed or cleaned by human hand or anything prior? Just a thought  |
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United Kingdom
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Calm down guys, he may be on to something... 'Rainbow coins' could be the next big thing!!
This next joke may only be understood if your from UK...?
Maybe the guy got told the coins had chips in them... so he went to go get some salt and vinegar!
Sorry buddy, I hope you can get it fixed, if not, learn a valuable lesson from it
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