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Steam cleaning coins
Elem21wed
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Has anyone ever tried this? I was in a jewlery/coin shop a few months ago and the owner was using a high pressure steam hose for cleaning watch bands, and rings that were not set with stones. I asked him about it and he uses it on stainless steel bands, gold, sliver, and platnium rings to remove dead skin cells and other deposits. I was wondering if it could be used on coins.
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you will ruin any value the coin had.
if people say it can be done, to enhance a coin, look at
them oddly and call them a coin doctor. then spit on the floor
and turn your back to them.
<< <i>please dont ruin old coins with silly attempts to clean them.
you will ruin any value the coin had.
if people say it can be done, to enhance a coin, look at
them oddly and call them a coin doctor. then spit on the floor
and turn your back to them. >>
You forgot "kick them between the legs."
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If you hit them at an angle the coins will shoot across the driveway and maybe lodge in a tree, hit a neighbor's kid or be lost all together.
Be sure to use a gentle soap! You don't want to damage any toning on the coins.
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<< <i>please dont ruin old coins with silly attempts to clean them.
you will ruin any value the coin had.
if people say it can be done, to enhance a coin, look at
them oddly and call them a coin doctor. then spit on the floor
and turn your back to them. >>
You forgot "kick them between the legs." >>
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<< <i>Does anyone here believe in coin conservation? Stabalizing coins so that they don't corrode any further. I'm not talking about toning them or brushing them with acid to bring up the date, but simple cleaning options that don't cause more problems than when you started. An honest discussion without the saber rattling of "coin purists". Some of these responses make me wonder if certain members would be more happy with a coin encrusted in mud and corrosion than any attempt at stabalizing the base metal. If you can clean a hundred plus years of dirt off a painting your conserving it, if you clean a coin you ruin it. I may not have done well in logic, but even I can see the hole in that argument.
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IMHO it just depends on when you ask most of these "certain members".
<< <i>Does anyone here believe in coin conservation? Stabalizing coins so that they don't corrode any further. I'm not talking about toning them or brushing them with acid to bring up the date, but simple cleaning options that don't cause more problems than when you started. An honest discussion without the saber rattling of "coin purists". Some of these responses make me wonder if certain members would be more happy with a coin encrusted in mud and corrosion than any attempt at stabalizing the base metal. If you can clean a hundred plus years of dirt off a painting your conserving it, if you clean a coin you ruin it. I may not have done well in logic, but even I can see the hole in that argument.
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Doing such conservation and removal of dirt and contaminants has always been desirable, and never considered
"coin cleaning" which is this hobby means removal of METAL with wire brushes, chemicals, abrasives or polishes.
While one would never think of not ever washing a '55 Thunderbird or attempting to stop it from rusting, or letting fungus and rot attack the Mona Lisa, some think that doing ANYTHING to preserve a coin for posterity is wrong, shady and unethical.
I even take the position that if a coin has ACTIVE CORROSION, it's better to do whatever it takes NOW - even Naval Jelly and steel wool -- and bite the bullet that you will forever have a harshly cleaned coin, than to have it eventually become a lump of oxides and salts in a few hundred years otherwise.
<< <i>Can I ask why do people have to touch any coins at all, just leave them alone, period, end of story.
In the "real" world people actually spend coins and receive them in change.
Everywhere you go people are handing you change without regard for fingerprints or mint state condition.
I've actually seen cashiers open rolls by banging them on the deviders in the cash register.
Can you imagine?
like brushing old copper coins with a certain kind of paint brush?
like dipping tarnished, dark, and sorta ugly silver coins?
i collect gold coins which fall into a different category and let me
tell you, it is a sad sight to see all these dipped shiny 150 year old
coins for sale. i refuse to buy them because i know/think that most
of them should be dirty and were "doctored" up by a caring coin
collector =-(
edited to add: your post was great and most of us will agree if you
just dug a coin out of the earth most would expect you to clean it
up the best you can (without ruining it i suppose), but most ask
here about a different type of cleaning (enhancement). right?