Damaged Walking Liberty Halves

I wouldn't do anything to theses Walkers. It sounds like toning lines from the cardboard. These lines usually don't affect the value.

So with the acetone, how long should I let one soak? I assume it can't harm anything; worst case scenario it just wouldn't do anything to help I guess. After soaking I would rinse them with distilled water and then air dry correct? I am not worried about those lines affecting the value, but some of them are kind of annoying when you see the reverse (luckily some coins are very faint) and I would prefer them to look a bit nicer/uniform on the reverse

Thanks for the info and tips! Has anybody used acetone on these kinds of "lines" or striations that appear on the coins reverse from the old folders? It sounds like that is the way to go and I was hoping to hear about some first hand accounts as to what the results were.

Tarnish/toning, surface damage if it's been there long enough. Since they're mainly bullion, not much.

Unless they're worth paying NCC, you're likely to do more harm than good. On au+, you might get away with Jeweluster.




Prolly wouldn't hurt, but it's designed to work on copper. I wouldn't waste the time and money.

Yeah I thought it was really desined for copper and the verdigris that forms on copper, but it says it is also useful on other metals including silver. I guess with it probably being tarnish/toing verdicare may not help much.

Sorry to tell you this but those stripes are the results of moisture getting to the glue on the rear of those slots. At the factory where those are produced the glue is stipped on the entire page to save expenses. The cardboard slotted pages are then layed out on them but the glue is on the inside of the slots too. Many people spit on that glue to hold in well worn coins. Moisture in the area too makes that glue attact the coins. In almost all such cases those darkened streaks from that glue is there forever. The only way to remove them is to clean the entire coins with something like Jewlery Cleaners but that would really ruin the value. A dip of any length in Acetone will only remove any of the glue itself that may still be on the coins but that toning, tarnishing or whatver you want to call it is there forever. Sorry.

Just Carl is right, the heavy toning from the glue strips in those folders is pretty much permanent unless you want to strip the entire coin with a commercial dip. That will make them about as ugly as the dark striped toning does.