Stripping colorized ASEs

Outhaul

Is there any way to do it without harming the surface? Or are these done for?

Cheers

Bob

grip

Have you tried acetone?

bigjpst

There's a bunch on the BST you could practice on. (not mine)

I would suppose that it really depends on what the colorizing material is. I've seen some that appear to be vinyl and I don't think that they use an adhesive that acetone would work on. You could try just soaking one in acetone for a couple of days and see what happens. You could also try steam.

TurboSnail

soak in olive oil until it comes off?

morgandollar1878

Acetone, works pretty well. I have done it more than just a few times and sometimes they can be a little stubborn.

Stooge

Years ago I was with a girl on a date and we had to stop over her mothers house. While there I noticed she had a silver eagle that was painted. She had it tilted to where it was almost standing on its edge while on the back of the bookcase as to see it. Well it must have been painted by hand with watercolors or of the such because it started to "Bleed" towards the bottom. Gravity must have pulled the paint down via postural drainage if that makes any sense. The coin was virtually flawless except for a pile of paint left at the bottom of the coin itself. Not sure if this was a fluke or if the silver wasn't able to hold onto the paint or what but it was neat to see.

abcde12345

Defacing coins might be a felony in your jurisdiction. Please read up on your current bylaws and ordinances before doing so.

logger7

Xylene and toluene are readily available at the hardware stores stronger than acetone. Dips won't damage most coins. Just beware of sparks or heat.

Weiss

Yep, I've used acetone on a couple of beautifully rendered red, white, and blue enhanced, genuine and authentic solid silver United States Mint silver eagles. The paint came right off, leaving no trace.

abcde12345

@Weiss said:
Yep, I've used acetone on a couple of beautifully rendered red, white, and blue enhanced, genuine and authentic solid silver United States Mint silver eagles. The paint came right off, leaving no trace.

Illegal though to allow oil based paint down a water drain. Check with your local ordinances and codes of practice and conduct before proceeding.

Weiss

@abcde12345 said:
Illegal though to allow oil based paint down a water drain. Check with your local ordinances and codes of practice and conduct before proceeding.

...and remember, kids, eat your vegetables, floss daily, and drink Ovaltine.

The amount of paint on a colorized state quarter or SAE is probably about as much as is on a typical fingernail after getting one's "nails did". Not ironically also removed with fingernail polish remover, also known as acetone.

BAJJERFAN

@abcde12345 said:

@Weiss said:
Yep, I've used acetone on a couple of beautifully rendered red, white, and blue enhanced, genuine and authentic solid silver United States Mint silver eagles. The paint came right off, leaving no trace.

Illegal though to allow oil based paint down a water drain. Check with your local ordinances and codes of practice and conduct before proceeding.

Put the used acetone in a paper cup or other container that you don't want with some junk paper towels. Let it sit out to evaporate and then throw it in the trash.

Coinstartled

@BAJJERFAN said:

@abcde12345 said:

@Weiss said:
Yep, I've used acetone on a couple of beautifully rendered red, white, and blue enhanced, genuine and authentic solid silver United States Mint silver eagles. The paint came right off, leaving no trace.

Illegal though to allow oil based paint down a water drain. Check with your local ordinances and codes of practice and conduct before proceeding.

Put the used acetone in a paper cup or other container that you don't want with some junk paper towels. Let it sit out to evaporate and then throw it in the trash.

But be careful with the bleached white paper cups. They have been processed with Dioxin.

Staircoins

Acetone has always worked for me.

Interestingly a local B&M sells these 'colorized' ASEs for spot, just as he does generic silver rounds. (He gets a slight premium for non-colorized ASEs, of course.) So it's easy enough to pick these out when he has them, clean up a batch, and voila, typical mixed-date ASEs!

BAJJERFAN

@Coinstartled said:

@BAJJERFAN said:

@abcde12345 said:

@Weiss said:
Yep, I've used acetone on a couple of beautifully rendered red, white, and blue enhanced, genuine and authentic solid silver United States Mint silver eagles. The paint came right off, leaving no trace.

Illegal though to allow oil based paint down a water drain. Check with your local ordinances and codes of practice and conduct before proceeding.

Put the used acetone in a paper cup or other container that you don't want with some junk paper towels. Let it sit out to evaporate and then throw it in the trash.

But be careful with the bleached white paper cups. They have been processed with Dioxin.

In which case you shouldn't be using them or buying them.

Coinstartled

I think the Sponge Bob ones are ok.

(just playing off the sky ifs falling theme)

Outhaul

Is there any way to do it without harming the surface? Or are these done for?

Cheers

Bob> @abcde12345 said:

@Weiss said:
Yep, I've used acetone on a couple of beautifully rendered red, white, and blue enhanced, genuine and authentic solid silver United States Mint silver eagles. The paint came right off, leaving no trace.

Illegal though to allow oil based paint down a water drain. Check with your local ordinances and codes of practice and conduct before proceeding.

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Who the hell appointed you the voice of conscience?

jtlee321

I've removed the paint and in some cases labels that were applied to silver eagle's with acetone on many occasions. That's the method I'd try first. Next would be aluminum foil with some baking soda and boiling water. It worked on one of the stubborn ones I had. The label floated right off after that.

1630Boston

Perhaps carry them as pocket pieces...............for a while

MsMorrisine

@abcde12345 said:
Defacing coins might be a felony in your jurisdiction. Please read up on your current bylaws and ordinances before doing so.

not if the resultantcy of the coin effects yields a new variety.

MsMorrisine

acetone - done it many times with paint. there are those with enamel resin melted onto them -- these I have not tried.

BAJJERFAN

@Outhaul said:
Is there any way to do it without harming the surface? Or are these done for?

Cheers

Bob

Either way they are done for so you've got little to lose. Unless the surface was somehow pretreated before colorizing, there should be no harm.

abcde12345

@Weiss said:

@abcde12345 said:
Illegal though to allow oil based paint down a water drain. Check with your local ordinances and codes of practice and conduct before proceeding.

...and remember, kids, eat your vegetables, floss daily, and drink Ovaltine.

The amount of paint on a colorized state quarter or SAE is probably about as much as is on a typical fingernail after getting one's "nails did". Not ironically also removed with fingernail polish remover, also known as acetone.

Imagine if all 330 million Americans did this that would be tons and multiple gallons of point/oil/waste polluting our natural springs and oceans instead of landfills.

MsMorrisine

I find getting a 2 month old to do anything besides eat, sleep, cry and poop quite difficult

abcde12345

@MsMorrisine said:
I find getting a 2 month old to do anything besides eat, sleep, cry and poop quite difficult

Missing period. (pun intended!)

OldIndianNutKase

@logger7 said:
Xylene and toluene are readily available at the hardware stores stronger than acetone. Dips won't damage most coins. Just beware of sparks or heat.

Thanks for the reminder about toluene. Many year ago as a young engineer I was responsible for controls and instrumentation in Shell Oil's Aromatics plant which produced toluene, and some other VOC products. We used to clean our neckties with toluene at the lab. Can't wait to try it on a coin.

Azurescens

@1630Boston said:
Perhaps carry them as pocket pieces...............for a while

Didn't know anyone else kept pocket pieces. I keep a lucky Morgan in my wallet and my first Franklin half dollar from grandma. I carry around a tosser Morgan to help with my dexterity and nerve damage in my hand.

I've started wearing a 14k gold bezel with a 24k arras on one side and a fanam on the other with a small piece of gold (which faces out.. the wife isn't any type of hispanic or South America, and I hold her close to my chest).

If the world goes to hell in a handbasket, at least the person who loots my body will make out pretty good.

ricko

Acetone does the trick... Not difficult... after removal, allow to evaporate... however, use fresh acetone to clean/rinse the ASE...otherwise some of the 'paint' will have redeposited on the surface... then rinse again with alcohol, followed by hot running water...... Good as new... Cheers, RickO

asheland

Steel wool?

asheland

asheland

Yes, I am bored.

ChrisH821

Surprised no one has suggested to let Rachel clean it off.

abcde12345

Before this thread gets out of hand allow me to apologize for my 'period' comment above. It was flagged and I didn't mean to offend the flagger.

1630Boston

I did not flag it but your statement immediately above says something about your character, I like it JMO

davewesen

@abcde12345 said:

@Weiss said:

@abcde12345 said:
Illegal though to allow oil based paint down a water drain. Check with your local ordinances and codes of practice and conduct before proceeding.

...and remember, kids, eat your vegetables, floss daily, and drink Ovaltine.

The amount of paint on a colorized state quarter or SAE is probably about as much as is on a typical fingernail after getting one's "nails did". Not ironically also removed with fingernail polish remover, also known as acetone.

Imagine if all 330 million Americans did this that would be tons and multiple gallons of point/oil/waste polluting our natural springs and oceans instead of landfills.

I hope you do not drive an automobile with a combustion engine - if you do, it has dropped some oil on a road it has traveled. Imagine what would happen if 300 million vehicles did this in the country, what all the natural springs and oceans would be like......

WinLoseWin

@abcde12345 said:
Defacing coins might be a felony in your jurisdiction. Please read up on your current bylaws and ordinances before doing so.

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abcde12345 always post the absolutely most helpful information. But this time abcde12345 omitted mentioning that you really need to submit all such items to PCGS for grading and conservation.

abcde12345's omission of this critical information might be a felony in some jurisdictions (of North Korea).

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BAJJERFAN

Kim Jong doesn't need THAT much evidence to send you to that great bourse in the sky!