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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Poll Question
how many of you in your younger years
for me it's number 1.
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When I was much younger, I didn't know any better. I thought my US cents looked dirty, so I took some brass cleaner to them while still in the folder  I have since replaced all the coins and they are in an album now. Live and learn. |
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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that sounds like me Fuzzy, I'm pretty sure most of the people in here are guilty of this, if the polls don't show it then a few to many people are holding back or gettin mind block lol.
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Valued Member
Canada
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listened to my step father and used coke or sprite to clean them, then again I had the brilliant idea of using tape to keep my cents and nickles in quarter holders, (the push in paperboard type).
Edited by wazzappenning
12/28/2014 10:49 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I've done the brasso too the pennies as well, but it was on the unread daily paper lol, they sure look good all shiny and new, kinda proud to spend them at the corner store lol.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Maybe it would be more interesting split up into age groups. I'd guess it was more common with the 45+ crowd, but nothing really to base that on. Split it into dealers versus average collectors and it might get even more interesting... if I could hop in a time machine and go back into those coin shops I purchased from as a kid in the 70s I bet almost every coin was altered in some way.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I'm having a hard time voting here because as far as I can remember I've never actually cleaned a coin. I was always the more cautious type and back when I first started collecting, I had barely any money to actually buy coins so I just exchanged coins I had multiples of with other low-end collectors; the type of coins that could be easily picked out of a dealers bulk bins, most accumulated on my vacations in Asia and Europe as well as what my dad had from his collection as a child. Although, before I got wise and started storing my coins in folders, they probably accumulated some wear and bag marks from being in my pockets and bins. I'm glad that I read up on all the right stuff before buying anything of significant value.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I did it just this past year.....
I used a bunch of different chemicals.. I whizzed 'em.... buffed 'em... burned 'em baked 'em .... I was doing all sorts of things to my pennies and junk silver... and having a blast...
I never did it when I was younger... but I wanted to be able to identify different types of "cleaning" and toning techniques...
And just so we're clear.. for the sake of education... I would do it again!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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well I have to be honest here, I'm also wanting the votes to come out as they truly should be, I believe the stats would be at least 90% plus in having made a coin shiny. If you disagree with this then perhaps the big picture escapes you lol. Cheers and have fun.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I've also done it recently with acetone and some nice silvers that needed a bit of careful TLC. So I see we still do it on the odd occasion, even later in life lol
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I never tried to make them shine, but was very guilty of just throwing them in a box, it was not until about 5 years ago that I ever bought some 2x2's. Nothing of real high value, mostly just interesting finds, but it would have been nice to have a bunch of MS coins from 80's, 90's, 00's that did not need to found/purchased in the last 5 years. But such is life...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The album I got as a kid said to put the cents in lemon juice to make them shiny.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I did it for chemistry. Also, I didn't know any better. This was in Indonesia though, so we used the old yellow brass coins.
Also some attempts at electroplating an aluminium Rp 500 where everyone failed since no one was able to get the copper to stick to the coin.
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Pillar of the Community
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The coins I cleaned were only junk silver, 1937-1967 in low grades but I'm not happy about it. If you take a coin and wipe it on your shirt for a minute on each side of the coin it becomes shiny but I only do that with modern coins not worth anything. When your parents give you coins and your obviously too young too know that cleaning is bad and you see there old and dirty and you clean them, its just funny, that should be a fail of parenting but the parents don't know either or at least in my situation they didn't. Once again, education is the key to collector success!
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Valued Member
Canada
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When I was young, I heard about putting dirty pennies in a mixture of water and vinegar and leaving them for a while to make them shiny (oooo shiny things). I attempted it with a handful of my grimiest pennies and let them dry, not on paper towel (because I couldn't find any), but aluminum foil. I recently noticed some pennies that are dirty on one side and clean on the other, and I suspect it was from that experience.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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that's great hearing these stories, so easy to see doing those things back in the day. We can't be serious all the time about collecting lol, keep the good stories comin, cheers. Ty for your personal replies, real good, thanks.
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