HOW TO BEAUTIFY OLD DIRTY 1943 STEEL CENTS

Tootawl

How to Beautify Old Dirty 1943 Steel Cents or is it How to Beautiful Old Dirty 1943 Steel Cents? Opening bid is only $1.95.

ROBBItheOKIE

I can say it in one easy word. DREMEL.

hookedoncoins

If you win the auction he will probably just tell you to dip it into some MS70... makes it shiny... lol.

-Jarrett Roberts

Tootawl

I liked it when I read the part about "Very hard to find information" in the auction.

Placid

Just use steel wool

MrLee

<< <i>Very hard to find information" >>


What's so hard about find a toothbrush and some Comet Cleanser

crito

If you win the auction he will probably just tell you to dip it into some MS70... makes it shiny... lol.

I wouldn't try that with EZ-est! They'll bubble like Alka-Seltzer

Coulport

Toilet bowl cleaner takes the zinc and rust off steel cents nicely.


Oops, did I just give away a valuable trade secret for free?

lordmarcovan

This is probably a primer on "reprocessing", or replating of coins that have lost their outer layer of zinc on the high points, exposing the steel underneath to rust. It use to be pretty widespread, and you could see ads in many non-numismatic magazines for reprocessed cents sold in little P-D-S-mint sets in little snaplock cases. Not all the ads mentioned that the coins had been reprocessed, which many collectors feel is an "alteration" to the coin.

I have an AU 1943-D cent with a repunched mintmark to the southeast, which would be a pretty desirable error/variety coin if some boob hadn't reprocessed it some time ago. It is a beautiful, bright coin to look at in person, but looks a bit too good to be true, as a result of the reprocessing. A magnifier tells the tale.

I'm willing to bet this is some sort of reverse-electrolysis/electroplating method.

MrLee

<< <i>Informative one side single leaflet. "HOW TO BEAUTIFY OLD DIRTY 1943 STEEL CENTS". >>



Something simple you can do at home. Like maybe battery acid?

coppercoins

Actually one of the best things for taking the white encrustation off of improperly stored steel cents is Blue Ribbon. It works like a champ and doesn't leave any lasting problems (on the coin, anyway). Mind you, the steelie has to be an UNC. That I know of there is nothing that will properly retone a blackened, rusted, or circulated steelie.

coynclecter

What, he wants 1.95 for a worn Brillo Pad!!!