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Valued Member
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Hey folks just another reason NOT to really mess with coin cleaning ESPECIALLY if you don't know what you're doing.   Story behind this one. Actually one of my first "really cool" coins. I was a kid. Maybe 6 or 7 years old. I got a Coin Collecting kit for Christmas when I was six. Came out of the Sears Wish book. Yes, Santa comes through!  Included in this kit was a nice, abrasive "cleaning" compound. No one in my family collected coins and we're talking 1968 here folks. So little Clembo's dad comes home with this large cent one day. "Hey if I clean it up it will look better!". So I did. Well, been about 40 years since I did that. Color is still off. An easy to spot "cleaned" coin. It's still in the original 2x2 that I put it in. Reminds me of two things. Why NOT to clean coins and my dad. clembo |
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Valued Member
United States
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Thanks for sharing the story. I remember those "cleaning kits" that you could purchase in the hobby aisle of stores in the seventies. Who knows how many nicely toned coins were destroyed from those things. There was a wire brush included with a few harsh chemicals.
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I got one of those "hobby kits" for Christmas 1980. Even though I was only 11, I knew better than to use the "Koin Kleaner" on my coins, so I "experimented" on some pre-searched pocket change. The best way to describe what happened is "If Pepto-Bismol made the cent, it would look like..." |
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Scary isn't it? Well, I learned but can also tell you all that once my folks realized this wasn't a "phase" for me they would buy me stuff from the Wish Book for Christmas. Still have it all in nice plastic holders and cleaned worse than my "experiment?" It hasn't stopped that's for sure but if I can get ONE person to NOT do this to a coin or NOT buy a horribly cleaned, "self slabbed" coin it is worth it every day. We learn from our mistakes. This reminder is proof. |
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Still have it all in nice plastic holders and cleaned worse than my "experiment?" Nope, it was all spent. Since it was my dad's change, I never got to see the reaction of the people he gave it to! However, somewhere there is a mid 1980's Zincoln in a PVC flip just waiting to be discovered! I started that "experiment" when I was in High School; then remember packing it in a box when I moved out of the house. After twenty years, I know it is here somewhere in one of those old boxes! |
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United States
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jbuck,
Your "experiment" sounds ghastly!
Oh the humanity! - or is it coinanity?
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Oh the humanity! - or is it coinanity? Probably a little of both... the coin suffered and I have to witness the result!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Guilty as charged... Ben |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Actually, I think the color in that picture looks pretty good.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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In the good old days it was customary to clean coins. If you had a coin collection and showed it to someone they would always say those are reall dirty. You should clean them. Many kids did. Most found out that if you took a turnkey baster and sucked out a little battery acid from a Lead-Acid battery, that would clean coins really great. If a coin was really dirty, just leave it in longer. Everyone I knew just had to have the shinniest collections when we were kids. Don't know why except for maybe lazy, but I never got into cleaning my coins back then.
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......shame there are no "examples" of that remaining !... I am almost tempted to recreate that experiment. However, I cannot bring myself to doing that to poor defenseless coins! |
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Pillar of the Community
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 ..... ......couldn't ever pick on even an ugly coin !! Hey !..... MAYBE BADTHAD WOULD DO IT !!.....  |
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MAYBE BADTHAD WOULD DO IT I can guarantee you that Bad Thad would never intentionally turn a Lincoln Cent pink! Edited by jbuck
08/31/2008 12:52 am
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Pillar of the Community
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No No No......he certainly wouldn't !... But maybe a junk Soviet Union coin or Philippine type for example ! Edited by eaglefoot
08/31/2008 1:37 pm
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But maybe a junk Soviet Union coin or Philippine type for example ! I respect all coins, foreign and domestic! |
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