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Valued Member
United States
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EZ-EST Coin Cleaner
Did any1 ever hear of this?
and is it ok to use on a couple of coins that I put in my whitman folder?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Personally, I would steer clear...
Ben
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sean1011, I've used it sparingly in the past. It works well to remove the black tarnish from silver rounds. As with any cleaner, it will remove metal from the surface of the coin. How much depends on how long it has been "dipped". I don't leave it in longer than 10 seconds and rinse thoroughly with distilled H2O. Frequently dipped coins or those dipped for long periods lose luster. Many untrained eyes can't spot it, but the TPG's can. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I had some coal black AU coins I used Jeweluster on and they came back MS63 from PCGS.
I wouldn't use it on anything but AU/unc silver coins, and only until it removes the tarnish.
Edited by biggfredd
08/15/2008 4:55 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hello Sean,
I've used this stuff and it does work very well. However, I would only try in on low-value silver coins where loss of luster won't significantly hurt the value. You need to rinse your treated coins very well afterwards or else they can develop odd discolorations over time.
If you dilute it with distilled water (maybe 1 part EZ-Est to 2 or 3 parts water) you can slow down the speed of the cleaning process. This is helpful if you just want to lighten the toning on a dark coin, without completely stripping it.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Everything depends on your likes and dislikes with coins. If you have an album for your coins and you just want them to look pretty, shinny, clean, newish, etc. then any cleaning would do the same. Some work much better than other products. Simple jewlery cleaner from Walmart is cheap and works wonders. The main thing to remember is as long as your doing it for yourself and have no interest in the coins future value, then no problem. In the greatest majority of instances when people clean anything old, coins included, the remove part of the original material. Experts can see this easily in some instances and, true, may miss it in others. If the coins in question are of original low value, nothing to loose. If any coins are worth anything at all, DON'T CLEAN THEM. Once a coin is cleaned it is almost impossible to UNCLEAN THEM. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Wal-mart jewelry cleaner and stuff like tarn-x is NOT formulated for coins. Jeweluster is.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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when you hear the term dipping or hear someone say a coin has been dipped this is usually the product that has been used on the coin. If you don't know what you are doing you can really ruin the coins surface with it because it eats away at the metal and if left to long in the chemical it will remove the luster and leave the coin looking flat
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If any coins are worth anything at all, DON'T CLEAN THEM.
Once a coin is cleaned it is almost impossible to UNCLEAN THEM.
 Leave em' alone !....  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Quote: Wal-mart jewelry cleaner and stuff like tarn-x is NOT formulated for coins. Jeweluster is. In reality your rather wrong there. I've used just about any and every thing on coins as experimentation. Not any coins of value. Not long ago I purchased a 1995 Lincoln Cent Double Die in absolutely MS-64 but it had a nick, large finger print on the face. Naturally I got it for practially nothing. At home I tried Acetone and numerous other solutions to remove that print but no results. Then, since it was just sitting here waiting for me, I dipped that coin in Walmart jewelry cleaner and PRESSTO, finger print gone. It also did wonders on a Dime I found that had some really ugly stuff on it. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The only way to remove signs of cleaning is to let them wear a bit either by carrying it around as a pocket piece or use of a coin tumbler to simulate natural wear.
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Rest in Peace
United States
9104 Posts |
Are you saying the coin now has natural copper color, or only that you removed the spot? I could remove the spot with nitric acid, but I wouldn't recommend it as something to clean coins with.
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Posted 08/15/2008 3:00 pm
