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Valued Member
 United States
119 Posts |
Hi,
I am new and very happy to be a part of the coin community. I have three important questions.
I have green stuff on my coins. How do I clean this off or do I just dump the coin? Please be specific.
Also how do I safety store my coins? What do I store them in to keep them safe? Please be specific.
How is a safety deposit box on coins. Is it safe for the coins?
Dirty coins don't bother me but stuff that will destory my coin does.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 to CCF Anyway, If you could please show a good image of what green you have on your coins that would be helpful as there is a couple different causes. Verdigris, PVC oozing from bad holders or albums, and perhaps others that I don't know of. Try to get a good picture of a couple coins with this green on it. The bank deposit boxes are generally safe. There are very many valuable coins in them now everywhere. Some of these are in temperature controlled environments. First you need to determine if your collection is worth the expense of a deposit box. Many hobby supplies manufactured these days for coins are now all safe of PVC. Wherever you buy them, you should double check here to see if they are safe. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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, malgal. Others on the forum can give you good advice for cleaning your coins. I will say that moisture and other environmental issues are enemies of coins. Keep them at a fairly constant temperature and in a low moisture area. Some people use desiccants. Also, don't let the oils from your skin get on the coins any more than necessary. VerdiCare is a product that helps clean and protect copper coins. Some people use high grade acetone to clean silver or other coins, but use some distilled water afterward. Keep your special coins in 2x2 mylar flips or airtites. "Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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Valued Member
 United States
119 Posts |
I will upload an image when I figure out how to do it. Working on it.
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Valued Member
United States
119 Posts |
I have pennies in folder for 35+ years and a few are showing green.
Is it a good idea to change these into a newer folder?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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There were these brown faux leather folders my father had his complete sets of Indian cents and Buffalo nickels in about that long ago. I think they were called Harco Coinmaster Albums. They were gooey with green slime. They were in small slide in rows. The display idea was beautiful. the plastic was damaging to the coins. They were sold pre-coin show to a dealer with the damage obvious and pointed out. Maybe that dealer knew how to remove the slime. I think if it has hardened, then you're in trouble. If it's still slimy, then acetone might remove it and sometimes easily. The monetary loss was sizable when I sold them. Now that same company I think changed the plastic inserts. The copper coins seemed to react worse to the plastic than his other silver coins in those albums. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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To post a picture it has to be smaller than 300 kb below the box you type in here is a button that says "Switch To Full Reply" Use that. When you are in Full Reply look for the little green camera and Upload Image link. I don't use a phone so I can't help you with that but if you store an image smaller than 300kb on your pc desktop, you can easily Browse to find it and upload. Use preview your post to see how it looks before hitting reply. More info here https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/tutorials.asp |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Nickel Guy has given you excellent advise. In order for us to be specific about the plethora of options you may have to keep your coins safe, we need to have a specific idea about what you have. A $2 value nickel is just fine in a 2X2 coin flip costing 2 cents. If you have a potentially valuable coin worth several hundred dollars or more, we might recommend sending it to a TPG for authentication and grading. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Sorry I see now why thay say be specific. The pennies are in a Lincoln Memorial penny Collection Folder. No plastic over them. No name but looks like Whitman's and I can't remember |
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Valued Member
United States
119 Posts |
Hopefully they will open when I click.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Here is the other one.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10284 Posts |
I am glad that your coins are hopefully not all like this. Better that they have this issue than PVC damage. That's just verdigris ... an oxidation issue caused by moisture and the elements, which is better than the green slime! Not a good thing of course but this can be sometimes addressed with successful improvement. There is a product called Verdi Care and/or Verdi gone. I am not endorsing the product but many use it, including myself on occasion. Those two coins there are common and certainly easily replaced. You need to be familiar with which dates and what mintmarks are on your particular coins to determine their worth. These two do not equal in value what cleaning they would require. They appear to be some of the most common wheat cents you will find. Now if it were a 1909 S or 1931 S Lincoln or a number of others, then they would be worth proper treatment with perhaps the products I mention. I have a bottle sitting 1 foot away I bought in my local coin shop in the past year, and another in storage someplace in the basement that I got when the product first came out. I was lucky to be one of the original people to test out the product from a fellow member here on CCF that invented the stuff.  > BT Edited by TNG
07/20/2017 9:47 pm
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