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Posted 10/30/2009 10:46 am
To make a short story longer, here are a pile of coins that have been through extensive cleaning processes for numerous reasons.
Hopefully the photo is clear enough. All of these coins were really a mess for Numismatic purposes. Some, the Nickel, were highly polished with something that made them look like mirrors. Same with the SLQ but not as shinny. All the Cents were covered with dirt, grime, corrosions of who knows what. The Large cent was the worst since it was so corroded it was noticably potted with holes.
As a starter all of these were placed in Acetone in a glass jar individually of course. Then the Nickels were placed in laquer thinner. All for just a few minutes. These did very little except the Nickels did tone down somewhat. After this these were individually placed in Alcohol, then rinsed in hot distilled water and now all dunked into a baking soda/distilled water solution and very, very lightly rubbed. This process strectched out for several weeks a little at a time. Finally all were starting to look a bit like normal ocoins to some degree. Then finally all were placed in a glass jar, left on a picnic table in my yard where the Sun could hit it most of the day. Finally a few days ago all were taken out and placed on a kitchen window sill and this is the final results.
Note for some reason the Large Cent turned Red. Not just a slight Red, but a real Red. The Nickels came out the best so far I think except I'm really proud of the SLQ's results. One of the Cents really still looks bad.
Remember that cleaning coins is not a intelligent thing to do normally but these were really already ruined at the beginning.
Hopefully the photo is clear enough. All of these coins were really a mess for Numismatic purposes. Some, the Nickel, were highly polished with something that made them look like mirrors. Same with the SLQ but not as shinny. All the Cents were covered with dirt, grime, corrosions of who knows what. The Large cent was the worst since it was so corroded it was noticably potted with holes.
As a starter all of these were placed in Acetone in a glass jar individually of course. Then the Nickels were placed in laquer thinner. All for just a few minutes. These did very little except the Nickels did tone down somewhat. After this these were individually placed in Alcohol, then rinsed in hot distilled water and now all dunked into a baking soda/distilled water solution and very, very lightly rubbed. This process strectched out for several weeks a little at a time. Finally all were starting to look a bit like normal ocoins to some degree. Then finally all were placed in a glass jar, left on a picnic table in my yard where the Sun could hit it most of the day. Finally a few days ago all were taken out and placed on a kitchen window sill and this is the final results.
Note for some reason the Large Cent turned Red. Not just a slight Red, but a real Red. The Nickels came out the best so far I think except I'm really proud of the SLQ's results. One of the Cents really still looks bad.
Remember that cleaning coins is not a intelligent thing to do normally but these were really already ruined at the beginning.
