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Valued Member
United States
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My first ten "premium" coins arrived today. After I set each one out like below:  I thought to myself, "How are these coins?" Totally skeptical about this batch of ten. At least they went ching-ching like coins! If anything, they'll teach me a thing or two about the cleaning process. So here goes with the distilled water... |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Take it very slowly, you may be surprised.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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hard to tell RH, doesn't look real promising...but pish is right, there may be something surprising in there. maybe post again after a dip and scrub? individual coins instead of group.
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Moderator
 United States
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I hope your not going to be disappointed with this group. I'm not seeing very much details, but that could just be the crude covering them. As Pish said just take your time cleaning them.
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Valued Member
 United States
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Yeah. I don't have my hopes up. I doubt there's anything amazing. One is thicker than most. Another has some shaping to it. Maybe at least one will come out of this. I will see what's up with them tomorrow after work.
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Valued Member
United States
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I briefly checked on the coins this AM. Not too much change so I decided to put warm distilled water in there. The distilled water is rather cold to begin with. Maybe that'll show some improvement later.
How do y'all know when to give up on a coin because it's a slug? Versus knowing the coin just needs more soaking.
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United States
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Unless the coin is heavily encrusted you should see some details, if not than it's most likely a cull.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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You can never be sure. I had a blank disk which I soaked and it came up a silvered coin with a lot of the silver in tact.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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pishpash, you recall how long that took you for that coin? It sounds like it was pretty heavy with dirt.
Most of mine are fairly thin. So I doubt there's anything hidden under the crust. I can see a few do have a layer of crust because the metal is exposed in small spots.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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It was a thin coin. It looked so uninteresting, I had left it in DW for weeks, picking out more interesting coins to work on. When I realised there was silvering, I took it very slowly. In fact I haven't finished the obverse yet.
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Valued Member
United States
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Oh wow. Okay. That gives me some hope then. It's good to hear how long it can take. Everybody just says it can take days to years without giving any examples. Thank you so much! :)
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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If I bought a batch of 50 uncleaned and ended up with half a dozen good coins, I would count myself lucky!
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Valued Member
United States
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Oh my. I purchased 20 from a fella in Canada so maybe I'll get 4 to 6 good coins. lol
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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When I started I went for low grade coins because they were cheaper and I figured I would do less damage whilst I was learning. You can get higher grade dirties, but it is very subjective. If I paid for better quality coins I would expect to pay more but find more decent coins.
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Valued Member
United States
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I was looking at the price per coin in the lot. So it was like... $2.10 per coin. It seemed high, to me.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i usually soak for 4 days to 2 weeks per "cleaning" session. you really can't go wrong. just keep going until you're happy or you realize there is nothing you can do to improve it. even if they don't turn out, it will be good for practice.
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Posted 03/06/2014 10:32 pm
