Jackpot! :-)

Noooooooo! Not el Tarn-X Amigo.


But good job!

Thanks, Mitch. It's the way that I am wired. We all have to live with ourselves and that gets a lot easier when we can stomach the guy looking out of the mirror at us each morning.

As to the Tarn-X... gotta do it. I love SHINY coins. Ones burnt by O2? Not so much. Besides... Tarn-x removes no metal and leaves no residue. After rinsing and drying, it will be like it was never there... except for the shine, of course.


Thanks, Trip. It seemed the best way to create a win-win situation.



Thanks, Jack. I always like to treat people the way that I would want to be treated. There are a lot of things in this world about which I know little to nothing. Would not want to have a bunch of BAD Karma hanging over me at the wrong time.



Not a problem, DNA. I see from your post that we think alike in such matters.



Got to do it, Tim. I understand the purists position and all but...



Will do, 'Hawk... yeah, I do know your position. It's the same as mine and probably for the same reasons. I understand the au naturel crowd and they can do whatever they want with their coins, 'long as we get to do the same with ours.



Thanks, CoinHunter. This turned out real well for both of us. We both came away from the deal happy.



Thanks, Okiepb. I wanted to be fair with her and not have to worry about her finding out from someone else that her coins were worth a lot more than $10. That would probably have been unforgivable. Don't want such things on my conscience... and there's no need to put them there.



Thanks, Earle. I just couldn't see myself slinking in here and reporting... "Hey, guys... I just ripped off an old unsuspecting lady!". Not my thing and with one exception that I can think of, not the thing of CCF forum members either. Far better to do the right thing and feel good about it for a day than to do the wrong thing and regret it forever. Life it too short and too sweet to mess it up like that.



Indeed, ICanSeeYou. There are a lot of them out there and many of them are very lonely people. Visit them, talk to them, and make some friends. Maybe they have or know of a good deal like this. Then again, maybe not. Either way, more friends never hurt anyone.



I understand, Trip. On the other hand, a little bling is a good thing!




Thanks, GearDaddy. It's pretty cool when a deal works so well for both parties.

Great! I love peppers. I even have a Jalapeno pepper plant as a house plant. It's about 3 years old now and loaded with peppers. Tasty little guys, too.




Thanks, fcrazo... but... Muahahaha!



That could well happen, MkMan. One never knows where a good deed will lead.

My grandmother was a wonderful and wise lady. She used to tell me things like, "We buy our ticket to heaven with the pennies we earn each day for our good works". Knowing her, she also thought that the bad things we do get us a ride on the not-so-good train.

About ten years ago my mother in a retirement village had some friends, an old married couple, who served as missionaries in Bolivia for over 30 years, and had now retired.

The couple said that they had some old 8 reale coins, which they wanted to sell and donate the proceeds to their missionary work back in Bolivia. As it turned out, they had about a dozen coins, ranging in condition fron Fine to good EF, dates from about 1780 to 1820, all of Potosi Mint. They said that they had been part of a cache of about 200 coins, and this small number of coins had been given to them.

They said that I could keep one, if I could get the best price for them. I said, that because of their generosity, I could not keep the best one, which was an 8 reale of Ferdinand V11, because that would bring the most money for them. The coin I kept is dated 1808, of Ferdinand V11, in nice VF condition. The reason I selected this coin is that I think Charles 1111, as depicted on his coins is SO ugly, and I told then so!

The coins were sold at time for about $500.

I still have the coin I kept. It is to me, quite a treasured possession.

Great grab! And kudos to you for being fair!

Jewelustre is bad enough when misused. Tarn-X isn't formulated for coins. And yes, it does both.

There's a reason people say not to clean coins. Sure, they're yours to do as you please, but lots of us have seen coins ruined by cleaning.

Once you master unfrying an egg, you're ready to clean coins.

Well said.

Go to APMEX & look at prices for the different grades of silver dollars. They sell everything from "less than culls" up to uncirculated pieces. The price for cleaned coins is less than the price for uncleaned coins in the same grade. It may only be a dollar per coin but at todays prices that's roughly a 3% difference. I'm not in the habit of giving up 3% of my investment.