Please let this be a troll posting...please let it be fake....

Discussion in 'US Coins Forum' started by cesariojpn, Jul 31, 2009.

  1. cesariojpn

    cesariojpn Coin Hoarder

    http://realcent.forumco.com/topic~TOPIC_ID~9271.asp

    Has people giving out good advice, till i saw this:

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    cesariojpn, Jul 31, 2009
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  3. ksparrow

    ksparrow Coin Hoarder Supporter

    I hope he meant 'cream of tartar,' a weakly acidic powdered food additive, and not tartar sauce (maybe he was thinking crabcakes, not coins!) Hard to believe one could "improve" a copper coin with a rock tumbler.
     
    ksparrow, Jul 31, 2009
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  4. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    Why ? It is one of the methods employed by some, and it works. Of course that depends entirely on how you define "improved".

    Perhaps you are unaware that the the method used by the US Mint to polish planchets prior to striking is very, very similar to using a rock tumbler with small gravel inside. The mint uses basically the same tumbler, but they use various sizes of metal ball bearings as the polishing medium instead of gravel.
     
    GDJMSP, Jul 31, 2009
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  5. jmon

    jmon Numismatist In Training

    True, but, they polish the raw planchets, not the pressed coins.
     
    jmon, Jul 31, 2009
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  6. LRL

    LRL Member

    I guess polishing mediums vary. I used to bench shoot rifles a long time ago. I'd reload my own ammo for accuracy. I had a brass case cleaner. It was basically a tumbler although it vibrated and didn't actually tumble. A good and popular media was crushed black walnut shells and you could get it commercially from any outlet that handled reloading supplies. Dump a few hundred spent cases in there, turn it on overnight and the next morning they looked brand new so you could inspect them for any cracks prior to reloading.
     
    LRL, Jul 31, 2009
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  7. De Orc

    De Orc Well-Known Member

    People been using rock tumblers for years to clean coins for the most part they dont use grevell though LOL there are a number of powders and plastic pellets available.
     
    De Orc, Jul 31, 2009
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  8. ksparrow

    ksparrow Coin Hoarder Supporter

    It just seems to me that gravel in a rock tumbler and a relatively soft copper coin would be a bad combo. A milder abrasive, as suggested above, would probably be more appropriate. I know of some who gently clean their ground finds with a brass wire brush, and some who embed the coin into a slit in a raw potato overnight to remove surface grunge, and they say it works well. To each his own!
     
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  9. Ripley

    Ripley Senior Member

    Jezzzzz...Wonder why he did not use the "Atomic laser radition ionization" treatment on the ole 1909. Say it ain't so. Traci
     
    Ripley, Jul 31, 2009
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