When was coin dip first sold?

291fifth

It was around when I started collecting in the early 1960's.

When was it first offered?

dimples

Well the Romans used a paste to clean their silver Denarius made from honeysuckle plants. I mean really with everyone burying their coins during all those invasions.

Bear

It started out as sheep dip, then was improved and used as an antifungal

solution for the feet ,in swimming pools.After it was used on untold numbers

of scuzzy feet, it was siphoned off, rebottled and sold as a coin dip. That is

the honest truth as straight as the crow flies.

nankraut

Seriously, I remember Jeweluster being around in 1970 or thereabouts.

notwilight

Before it was available commercially numismatists made their own. --Jerry

BigE

I wonder if it always smelled like bananas------------BigE

Shamika

<< <i>I wonder if it always smelled like bananas------------BigE >>


I know exactly what you mean!

Shamika

<< <i>Well the Romans used a paste to clean their silver Denarius made from honeysuckle plants. >>

And I'm sure there were those unscrupulous who sold there circulated coins as BU as a result.

LanLord

<< <i>I wonder if it always smelled like bananas------------BigE >>

Bananas? Where is that stuff? The coin dip I've used smelled like butt

tydye

I remember a book my dad gave me that had recipes in it for cleaning coins. The book was from the 60s. I think it may of been the blackbook.

Broadstruck

Wasn't this developed by ricko's ancestors

Coin Finder

The old time copper guys used cyanide on their coppers in the 1800's

gecko109

Immediately following the first coin chip of course!

ricko

While not actually invented by my ancestors, they bought the patent and therein lies the foundation of the family fortune. Cheers, RickO

TwoSides2aCoin

<< <i>While not actually invented by my ancestors, they bought the patent and therein lies the foundation of the family fortune. Cheers, RickO >>



Usually nothing beats a good cup of java in the morning, but since it shot through my nose after reading RickO's line, a hankerchief would.

bushmaster8

I used to Engineer on a narrow guage coal fired steam engine that toted folks around Brookfield Zoo.

My fireman was a 65 yr.old Hungarian guy that used to dissassemble sticky steam valves and soak them in a coffee can of his urine. He called it "body acid".

So I would say dip has been around since primates learned to direct their flow= millions of years.

mozeppa

it was called "dip it" from the early 60's

shorecoll

In the 1800's (and I think until the 1960's) you could buy almost any chemical over the counter so people did make their own, and eng was right on cyanide. There are still people who swear that it is the best thing for copper and the source of a lot of the red indians and lincolns. It is now harder to get (pure), although it's still used in some rat poisons.

edited to add: I was a chemist and could get it if I wanted it and some of the docs are actually chemists so they can still get it.

BigE

Is the story true about the old time collector in the 1800's who, cleaning his coins by candlelight accidentally mistook his cyanide dip for a glass of spirits and killed himself?------------BigE

notwilight

<< <i>Is the story true about the old time collector in the 1800's who, cleaning his coins by candlelight accidentally mistook his cyanide dip for a glass of spirits and killed himself?------------BigE >>



It was a very famous numismatist in 1922

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lordmarcovan

I was gonna mention the cyanide story but see I've been beaten to it.

pmac

<< <i>In the 1800's (and I think until the 1960's) you could buy almost any chemical over the counter so people did make their own, and eng was right on cyanide. There are still people who swear that it is the best thing for copper and the source of a lot of the red indians and lincolns. It is now harder to get (pure), although it's still used in some rat poisons.

edited to add: I was a chemist and could get it if I wanted it and some of the docs are actually chemists so they can still get it. >>


RYK's secret ingredient?

CaptHenway

I have seen coin dip referred to as "synthetic urea" in print.

Frankcoins

<< <i>It was around when I started collecting in the early 1960's.

When was it first offered? >>



Jeweluster was first sold 8/8/1951

PerryHall

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<< <i>It was around when I started collecting in the early 1960's.

When was it first offered? >>



Jeweluster was first sold 8/8/1951 >>



Based on the name it was probably developed as a jewelry cleaner and later adopted by coin collectors and dealers to clean coins.

Priest

Different forms of urea are used in fertilizers, a form of nitrogen. Correctly applied will green up a lawn, an overdose will burn the lawn to no end. And there are many other unproven, rumored uses.

ambro51

My grandmother taught me her method with I was very very young.


rub some baking soda and water on the coin.


(I dont do this anymore )

derryb

Coin dipping solution was actually created in the lab of a major medical university and was first introduced into the market by graduating "doctors."

derryb

Anyone ever use a jeweler's utrasonic cleaner on coins?

jmski52

Amyl acetate does smell like bananas.

Tdec1000

No, but I have seen a dealer in Florida who used an espresso machine "the steamer part" to clean pvc, dirt and grime off of coins. Totally natural and probably the best I have seen to date. Sure beats chemicals.