Need Advice On Cleaning Silver Eagles With Blue Spots

Mike
Unfortunately, those look like Carbon spots, they are there to stay and won't come off, I have one similar - and I recently replaced it because of the black marks. Not I bought the one with the spots and have not issues or sentimental attachments to replacing it,
Your case may be different, but at the end, the spots on the coin are there for the duration. Unless you want to damage the coin and try to forcibly remove it (an operation I do NOT recommend)

A few things to unpack in that post, let me start with my Two Cents:

1. The answers to your questions are almost completely subjective and it should be understood that it's the opinion of the answerer and not fact. Ultimately, you have do do what makes you happy/comfortable with the collection.

2. Air-tites for every coin can get expensive, and you didn't specify how many coins or what types, other than the ASE's. I would spend some time researching what you have and deciding whether your want to spend $1 - $2 per coin to store them, when a good archival quality coin flip can be had for about $.08.

I love air-tites and have a number of high end coins in them, but they are hard to display and label. I use archival quality slabs when possible (similar to what PCGS and NGC use) as there are sleeves available that allow you to put them into binders for viewing.

3. ASE's are high volume collectibles, which means their potential for value increase has a definite cap. They make, advertise and sell so many of them every year that, except for certain desirable and limited varieties, they aren't going to increase in value substantially over time, except perhaps as the price of silver goes up.

In other words, you should decide if you want to spend a lot of money storing and protecting something that isn't going to increase in value relative to inflation.

Of course, if they stop making ASE's then all bets are off, but that seems very unlikely any time soon.

4. Again, referencing just the ASE's, any kind of cleaning is not recommended as they are proof quality and even the slightest cleaning marks are likely to show up on the mirror-like surfaces, defeating your attempts to improve the coin.

Generally, "cleaning" (used in quotes because it has many different meanings) is not recommended unless one is certain they know exactly what they are doing as the likelihood of negatively impacting the numismatic value of a coin far outweighs the potential benefit.

They appear to be either business strike of bullion to me, not proof strikes (from what I can garner from the images anyway (just my opinion)

I have no problem with Air-Tite plastic capsules and I buy them regularly for under a dollar each. If I'm going to spend $50 to $75 for a coin I have no problem spending a buck for a capsule.
All of my coins that did not come in permanent packaging go into a plastic capsule and then into a 4 mil zip lock baggie.
Here's what they look like when they arrive and then when I'm done with them.

I don't put the price on any of my coins or their packaging - I print out the receipt to file away, and I also keep a PDF of the same receipt on my computer as a searchable data base.

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