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Pillar of the Community
United States
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At first I have to say no but then realize I have lately. A bunch of super common wheat pennies headed to the trash because of super bad green caked environmental damage. I cleaned them so that I would know what cleaned pennies look like well.
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Pillar of the Community
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Never polished a coin to make it as shiny as possible, but often brushed coins up to make them more presentable.
And ... I still do it with low valuable coins of my world currency collection.
Plus I am compelled to do some coin cleaning since my main areas of collecting are now ancient and medieval coins.
Btw, you should have put this poll in the main coin forum.
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Moderator
 Canada
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Btw, you should have put this poll in the main coin forum. Agreed, and done.  "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
3772 Posts |
Quote:Agreed, and done.  But what is your story 'SPP-Ottawa'? |
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Australia
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For me, I'd have to say I tried to make them shiny. I can't say I succeeded. All I managed to succeed in doing was turning copper coins pink and corroded using lemon juice, and silver coins dull and lifeless using silver dip.
I consider it a practical lesson in the Second Law of Thermodynamics: entropy is maximized. You can't unscramble eggs, and you can't make worn coins look like new again.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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When I was a kid, I heard somewhere that dirty coins can be made shiny if put into a fizzy drink for a night, because of all the acid in there. So I put one of my dirtier ruble coins in Fanta for a night. Turned out pretty shiny - and unexpectedly orange  That said, I'm pretty sure the coin was far from a mint-state condition, and anyway back then I had more than 200 other coins of this common type (Numista 3092); these coins were almost the definition of worthless - they were only worth face value, which near the end of their circulation period meant that one US cent was worth approximately fifty. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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At 6 years old, I discovered that rubbing a silver coin on the carpet would make it really shiny. Shortly thereafter I discovered that I would never do it again. My mother discovered silver oxide streaks on her white carpet. It was a day filled with discovery.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
And I suspect a red tail as well,  followed by  ' ' ' ' ' ' |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
548 Posts |
Yes, to my shame I actually got out a tin of silver polish which is pretty much the worst thing you can to a coin short of taking a hammer and chisel to it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6370 Posts |
Does bringing out the luster on black, heavily-tarnished coins via a non-abrasive method count? If so, then yes.
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Moderator
United States
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For me, when I was a kid, it was Lincoln Cent versus Pencil Eraser.  |
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Canada
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But what is your story 'SPP-Ottawa'? I don't have a story. I had an uncle who collected coins, and instilled the "never clean your coins" into my head at the very beginning. Of course, I experimented, and some coins you can "clean", meaning removing organic matter with acetone or using a cactus thorn to clean out the "gunk" from an 1859 Canadian large cent to see if the 9 was a variety... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Moderator
United States
23522 Posts |
Let's just say that the bad things I know about thiourea are empirical data.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5400 Posts |
Guilty as charged your honour with no explanation!  !!!!! Boy did I love chemistry class in school! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1390 Posts |
Tabasco sauce on common LMCs.
Edit: Just remembered, there are a couple common LWCs in my Dansco that have the Tabasco'd look to them. Not sure if that was me, but they'll go whenever I get around to working on that set.
Edited by The Silver Searcher
12/29/2014 12:00 pm
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