Should I dip it?

Maybe you have a different idea of fun? To me, I'm just like this, the best reason to post a coin like this is to MAKE fun of newbs who see errors everywhere. But to me, damaged coins are just too ubiquitous to be even marginally interesting.

 

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Dip it in nitric acid.

 

Your second sentence is the reason.

 

Proving yet again how dangerous irony in text can be. My everyday rule is that if a coin makes it home with me at the end of the day, it goes in a plastic tube. All full tubes get cashed in just before the ANA summer convention and it becomes my son's "really nice Russian coin" budget. The way I'm accumulating this year, he may be shopping for an MS64 1924 Ruble.

 

Put it in acetone first. That will probably remove the dark clump at the bottom of the reverse. Then post another photo. We'll go from there. Don't dip it.

When, you finish with a slow conservation, you can put it on Ebay and shove the sale price into the face of all of us.

 

It's all ready in the coffee bucket, maybe I'll dig it out.

 

If you need the practice, this would be a good coin to dip. When you're done with it, spend it, assuming it's not 90% silver.

 

Ubitiquosly speaking, I say give it a good scrubbing, and polishing with a strong acidic silver cleaning cream and then give it a good gold paint job and then bury it about 5 inches down on an old homestead somewhere. Maybe someone with a metal detector will find it and then they can start a new thread. Hey, why let these Golden opportunities go to waste.

 

I agree with Bellman. One shouldn't waste time for such a coin.

 

I don't even see it as a silver coin, hence a "dip" is nonsensical to begin with. It's clad, isn't it?

 

Yes it is clad, I think it's 2000 D, but I wouldn't bet on it.

 

Except for the mintmark, that's what I saw - 2000. So-called "dip" is good for one thing and ONE THING ONLY, and that's removing ugly toning from an otherwise MS silver coin. Are you all rank beginners?!?!? I'm speaking to the 14 who voted to dip it.

This one ain't silver, and it WAAAAAY ain't mint state, so where does all this "dip it" come from?

Looks like it travelled on a recent North Korean missile.

 

V. Kurt Bellman, posted: "Except for the mintmark, that's what I saw - 2000. So-called "dip" is good for one thing and ONE THING ONLY, and that's removing ugly toning from an otherwise MS silver coin. Are you all rank beginners?!?!? I'm speaking to the 14 who voted to dip it. This one ain't silver, and it WAAAAAY ain't mint state, so where does all this "dip it" come from?"

You may wish to expand your horizons. I have learned that "Silver" dip is used to clean many types of coins - including clads. You must know the proper way to use it or you'll turn the edge of a clad coin unnaturally pink!

 

Did you find this in the boiler tank of a steam train by chance?

 

I prefer to report that thiourea dips ALWAYS turn copper unnatural colors, and anything that then ever appears "normal" again on them is due to an extra added treatment AFTER the thiourea dip. My emoji doesn't read the research and there isn't an adequate emoji for actually doing the chemistry oneself, as I have done. I gotz beakers, bunson burners, test tubes, rubber gloves, the whole shmegeggy. 'N' I uses 'em too.

 

V. Kurt Bellman, answered: "I prefer to report that thiourea dips ALWAYS turn copper unnatural colors, and anything that then ever appears "normal" again on them is due to an extra added treatment AFTER the thiourea dip. My emoji doesn't read the research and there isn't an adequate emoji for actually doing the chemistry oneself, as I have done. I gotz beakers, bunson burners, test tubes, rubber gloves, the whole shmegeggy. 'N' I uses 'em too."

So what.

Thiourea dips ARE USED (correctly when needed) ON CLAD COINS ON A DAILY BASIS. And...the folks who use it also gotz beakers, bunson burners, test tubes, rubber gloves, the whole shmegeggy, plus many more useful and more expensive things in their lab that you have not mentioned are in yours or 'N's (?).

 

I dissent. The entire purpose of thiourea dips is to break the Ag/S chemical bond so the free H of the acid can take away the sulfides. Whatever other nonsensical purposes to which it is put is of no consequence to me. For shame, @Insider, you should have attended my 2013 ANA Money Talk.

I submit to you that if thiourea dips are used on clad coins, it is because someone is too stupid or too lazy to use the appropriate chemical.

 

V. Kurt Bellman, posted: "I submit to you that if thiourea dips are used on clad coins, it is because someone is too stupid or too lazy to use the appropriate chemical."

Insider and the others he has worked with are: ,, ZZzzz .

 

I'll take that as an admission of being guilty as charged in my post #37. After all, PNG membership does not an expert make. It does, however, indicate a certain level of hubris.

 

I'm one of the people to suggest dipping the coin for "practice". You know, try something several times so that when the time comes to really need to dip a coin you have some knowlege of the correct way to do it.

It appears to be a "face value" coin, so dipping it won't incur any danger of harming a valuable coin. What's the old statement? "Practice makes perfect." Gee, and I said the above in simple terms without trying to impress anyone with my supperior knowlege, and in a polite civil manner.