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Valued Member
United States
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Hi all - on advice I read here-n-there, I soaked these 7 ugly ducklings in acteone, hoping to get some nice color back. I waited .. 5, 10, 30 minutes, 1 hour.. after about 1.5 hours I gave up, absolutely no change to any of them. Swabbed w/ a Q-tip and paper towel.. nothing. Maybe acetone is only for removing sticky/glue stuff? Do I need a 'dip' like Verdi-care for this? Any suggestions most welcome. [Yes I know, "don't clean your coins", but this is for non-valuable stuff like these nickels, and some silver that isn't worth much more than melt value] Many thanks!  |
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Acetone , Verdicare , or a modern medical miracle will NOT fix your obviously corroded specimens .
The coins as pictured are beyond saving , due to metal corrosion.
Edited by Pacificoin
11/25/2019 10:05 am
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Acetone will only remove so much, and corrosion isn't one of those things. It looks like several of those have corrosion and/or stains. Unfortunately, only a destructive method, like acid, will give those any more "eye appeal."
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Acetone is a powerful organic solvent for
greases, fats, oils, waxes and most plastics.
It will not dissolve the inorganic patina, (that is why acetone is used),
and corrosion salts, such as sulfides, oxides, chlorides, carbonates, etc.
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Moderator
United States
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As an aside, I think that the '12 looks fine as-is (at least the obv).
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nickels are always sort of a horror when it comes to removing stains, corrosion, etc. So many things just don't work on Nickels. I really don't know why they get so messed up but once they do, not much can be done to fix. The Acetone and or similar solutions do almost nothing for Nickels. Even some of the Jewelry cleaners only make them shine but not much else. Best leave them as is.
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Valued Member
 United States
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Nickels are always sort of a horror when it comes to removing stains, corrosion, etc. That is useful, because this really is "practice" for improving some common/circulated silver stuff, like this lot of Black Barbers, which I want to return to some semblance of silver. Thanks again!  |
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New Member
United States
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Just curious, did you find these coins in the ground with a metal detector?
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Valued Member
United States
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No, just cheapo ebay, 2 of those quarters look like nice detail w/ Liberty in the headband, so I gave them a shot. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That is useful, because this really is "practice" for improving some common/circulated silver stuff, like this lot of Black Barbers, which I want to return to some semblance of silver. Acetone will not remove the black toning off your Barber coins. To remove the toning it would take an acid dip like EZest, but not recommended for circulated coins as the coins will look cleaned/dipped. If you dip those black Barbers in EZest the coin will look silver, but you will not like the result. Soak in Acetone then leave the coins alone. |
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