Thread: I like Cleaned Coins and you should to thread

Hello




Any recommendations on how I can clean this?

Amanda

Originally Posted by areich

Hello




Any recommendations on how I can clean this?

Amanda

Is that your coin Amanda? It's a beauty. I would recommend not touching that coin. If you want a cleaned one, send me that one and I will send you a cleaned one.

Originally Posted by Kirkuleez

Is that your coin Amanda? It's a beauty. I would recommend not touching that coin. If you want a cleaned one, send me that one and I will send you a cleaned one.

Amanda

Wouldn't pure acetone be best to make it all clean and shiny? If not, why not?

Amanda

It is not always best to have brilliant or clean and shiny coins. If that coin were a blast white coin, it would simply appear unnatural. Acetone does work well for removing things like fingerprints and PVC damage. But this is done to preserve coins from damage that would occur if nothing were done to resolve the issue. A nice natural coin with no problems should never be cleaned IMO.

Is that a proof?

Originally Posted by areich

Amanda

Wouldn't pure acetone be best to make it all clean and shiny? If not, why not?

Amanda

I would not touch that coin with any cleaning agents....JMHO

Originally Posted by areich

Hello




Any recommendations on how I can clean this?

Amanda

Please don't clean that coin, Amanda. Any value to real collectors will be diminished.

Don't clean that capped bust. Just sell it and buy a cleaned one and keep the difference.

I'm with you Amanda. I would prefer a more visually appealing cleaned coin, as I find it hard to appreciate dingy looking tarnished coins. However, I would never clean that coin. By cleaning it you are decreasing the value of the coin. Plus, you are modifying the coin in a manner that can never be undone, which is a bit irresponsible from a historical preservation perspective.

These guys are right, if you want a cleaned version then sell that coin and buy the one you want (there are plenty of cleaned coins to go around). You will benefit financially, as you will have let someone else suffer the mistake of having cleaned their coin, plus you will have a coin that you prefer. This is my methodology, and it works for me

Why shouldn't she dip this coin? If dipping isn't harmful to coins then dipping this coin would be good? No?

Originally Posted by Cherd

I'm with you Amanda. I would prefer a more visually appealing cleaned coin, as I find it hard to appreciate dingy looking tarnished coins. However, I would never clean that coin. By cleaning it you are decreasing the value of the coin. Plus, you are modifying the coin in a manner that can never be undone, which is a bit irresponsible from a historical preservation perspective.

These guys are right, if you want a cleaned version then sell that coin and buy the one you want (there are plenty of cleaned coins to go around). You will benefit financially, as you will have let someone else suffer the mistake of having cleaned their coin, plus you will have a coin that you prefer. This is my methodology, and it works for me

Since whitefaced, cleaned coins are devalued, I would sell this coin and buy what I want. You could always buy other coins with the difference. So if you devalue this coin by 2/3 by cleaning it, sell this coin and buy three.

Dipping is cleaning.

Dipping should be done if necessary, I don't see any reason to dip that coin. If she really wants to have it properly conserved, she should send it to NCS. Personally, I find that coin beautiful the way that it is and would not risk damaging it by attempting to clean it.

I think my girlfriend is beautiful just the way she is, but if she insisted I wouldn't try to give her plastic surgery myself, I would hire a professional. But I would try to talk her out of it anyway.

But if it is harmless to the coin then it isn't going through cosmetic surgery..

Originally Posted by mrbrklyn

But if it is harmless to the coin then it isn't going through cosmetic surgery..

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It is not harmless, it is a method conservation. I know you just read the post about the Ike with the fingerprint.