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green color on silver

buffalohunterbuffalohunter Posts: 364
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any way to clean the green color off silver and make it look back to how it should be ??

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A pic would help. Might be PVC contamination. Try acetone which should not harm any toning.

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  • Marauderrt10Marauderrt10 Posts: 1,097 ✭
    Acetone will work. I use koinsolv which is just as good.
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Your going to remove a beautifull emerald tone from a coin.Post a picture before
    destruction begins.image
  • buffalohunterbuffalohunter Posts: 364
    acetone did remove the green, now they look like the mint just made them . how to dull them up ?
  • mumumumu Posts: 1,840
    Put them back in the acetone then light on fire.
  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Put them back in the acetone then light on fire. >>



    That's not very helpful.
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  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭✭✭
    << Put them back in the acetone then light on fire. >> imageimageimage
    Caution: Don't try this by yourself at home without proper adult supervision. image

    Stuart

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Did you rinse them well after dipping? If not, they will dull very shortly. Cheers, RickO
  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are you asking about green toning or green verdigris or PVC?
    Lance.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,550 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Are you asking about green toning or green verdigris or PVC?
    Lance. >>



    That's why we need some good pics.

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  • yellowkidyellowkid Posts: 5,486 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Are you asking about green toning or green verdigris or PVC?
    Lance. >>



    That's why we need some good pics. >>

    image


    I hope it was smoodge and not toning!!
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You can't take a picture of what was. Only what is.
    So we are all guessing that you need to rinse better and get some Saflip's to keep your coins in.
    image
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Why do I get the impression that this thread

    is a joke, a jest a Bon Mot.image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • mumumumu Posts: 1,840


    << <i>

    << <i>Put them back in the acetone then light on fire. >>



    That's not very helpful. >>



    It is for what he asked.
  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Your going to remove a beautifull emerald tone from a coin.Post a picture before
    destruction begins.image >>



    That's exactly what I was thinking.... image
    image...There's always time for coin collecting. image
  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    I keep checking back into this thread hoping to see pictures of what the OP is talking about.
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