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Bedrock of the Community
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I have found a bottle in a box that I am pretty sure I used on coins many years ago and will say it claimed to do something similar as Verdi-care. It was the craze back in the late 70's and early 80's. I just tested it on an ordinary copper Lincoln and it seemed to put a somewhat shiny thin film on the surface and took away a dark spot of dirt rather easily. The cent remains the same color as before but looks quite a bit better. It dried quickly but not like acetone does but dried within a couple minutes.  hey then again, it could be some kind of liquid smoke for my Lionel locomotive for all I know. Here's what the bottle looks like. Front is three flat sides and the back is rounded. I put a Lexar usb stick next to it for size. Anybody remember the name of such a product and does this look like it? The only writing on the bottle that remains is a number 100409. Thanks.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Never heard of it!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I do see I have a bottle of Harco Blue Ribbon laying around here someplace. It may be something like that but this bottle may be or may not be a coin product. However, it did work on the Lincoln. LOL
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@tng, while being conscious of potentially harmful fumes, can you tell us what sort of smell or odor this product has? It is oily or citrus or like grain alcohol? I wonder if it might be an organic solvent like MEK...
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Bedrock of the Community
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Did it have a strong aroma of vanilla?  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Bedrock of the Community
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No it has a faint sweet smell. Definitely not vanilla or alcohol. My Verdi care has no smell. Byt they have the same texture between my fingers. It is not oily. I just messed around with these two for about 10 or 15 minutes including the picture takin time. I think long term might produce some results. Lightened a bad spot on the 82 and really cleaned up 70% of the verdigris on that 2000 in a hurry. But I did help it along between my fingers, which would scratch a good coin. I may try this with an acetone dip and then let a nasty copper coin sit over a length of time with a dome of it between the rim edges. Before  After  |
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Rest in Peace
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The only coin cleaner I used over 30 years ago was an eraser on a number 2. (closer to 50 years ago)  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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The only coin cleaner I used over 30 years ago was an eraser on a number 2. (closer to 50 years ago) lol ... I've seen those results but never did it myself that I recall.  I think I am going to try a couple more duds before I try it on this coin. It looks like a good candidate. Of course, I will use acetone first. Verdi-care next and if that doesn't do the job, I think I'll see what this stuff will do. It has not discolored the copper appearance. I post this as a Before image and so I remember which one to work on.   Edited by TNG
11/22/2017 10:35 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Don't get your hopes up - Verdi-care don't work on many of my copper coins!
Works nice as long as the coins don't have verdigras.
Edited by Mark1959
11/23/2017 4:31 pm
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The product was most likely Blue Ribbon Coin Conditioner . Has not been available for about a dozen years. Contained Triclorethane1-1-1. Considered to be a compound detrimental to the environment especially the ozone layer.
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Bedrock of the Community
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If I find my Blue Ribbon bottle I will see if it is the same. I did one more crack at those two Lincoln cents shown above. Here's what they look like today. A little more improvement. This stuff may have it's place in some cases. The test will be the 1850 coin shown above but it's stuff the turkey for now. Happy Thanksgiving to all. We have it really good. Plenty to be grateful for.   |
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Looks like mercurochrome .  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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mercurochrome is pink, this stuff has no color, ... must be the lighting if you refer to the coins, but yes the bottle does look like something like ear drops or mercurochrome or iodine. I imagine there was a supplier for pharmacies to fill and label a bottle like this for any product. I am sure anyone could have bought a bulk package of empties and labeled them anyway they wanted.
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Bedrock of the Community
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TNG - That half penny is a nice one, betting that Verdi-care will help a lot. Keep us informed!
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11/23/2017 4:47 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Frog, I have located that Canadian Half penny but have not messed with it yet. However, I did find these two Lincolns that were in PVC flips for many years that I bought for a couple bucks and complained about here a few months ago on another thread. I did try acetone and Verdi-care but with no real luck. This unknown brown bottle paired with the Verdi-care made a big difference. The PVC is completely gone and these two coins look unaltered in every way. I soaked them for about 10 minutes and used a lint free paper cloth that was also moistened to pat them dry and then sop the excess off. I put each coin in one of those paper coin envelopes over night and they were dry in the morning. Here are some pics. The PVC flips and then Before on the left and After on the right. Bear in mind my pictures are worse than the coins actually look.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Okee Doke Coinfrogster I did the 1850 UC HP and made my image look close to what it looks like in hand but it is a bit darker. If I showed it dark, it was hard to see details. So it is a little browner in my pic where it is a bit blacker in hand. Compare to originals above it. Not bad. No scratches. ( It is still a little wet when I took the pics )   Here is before, during soak and after. Tomorrow it will be dry from being in the envelope and I will try to add a pic of it in daylight if I remember.  |
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