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"Dusty" surface on a silver panda

CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
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Is there a way to clean-up the "dusty" (looks like dust but isn't) surface on the mirror fields of a silver Panda? image

Is that common. Is there a remedy, prevention?
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  • cinman14cinman14 Posts: 2,489 ✭
    dippity doo....image
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Compressed air? Should be clean and dry.

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  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Compressed air? Should be clean and dry. >>



    the poster said looked like dust but isn't... so compressed air is out
    because i am assuming it is "stuck" to the coin.

    it seems a dippity doo is the right answer then proper storage in
    a 2x2.
  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭
    Its sort of like a very light, very annoying haze. I used some rubbing alcohol and a Q-tip to get rid of it, and it works pretty well. Just be sure the Q-tip is completely wet before you go to work on the coin.

    Edited to add: Be sure to thoroughly rinse with distilled water then use compressed air to blow dry the coin.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would think acetone would also work.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
    Many Thanks! image
    Collecting coins, medals and currency featuring "The Sower"
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