A word about cleaning coins from The Numismatist, July 1889

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  1. russell1256

    russell1256 Well-Known Member

    I found this very interesting, I hope you do too.

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  3. charley

    charley Well-Known Member

    That is Great....!!
     
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  4. Southernman189

    Southernman189 Well-Known Member

    MY how times have changed.
     
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  5. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    Stuff like that was still going on when I started collecting in 1960, but luckily for me my grandfather warned me against it.

    To a degree, stuff like that still is going on even today. And in some parts of the world it is far more common than it is in others.
     
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  6. CoinCorgi

    CoinCorgi Tell your dog I said hi!

    Plumbago sounds like the name of a dance craze.
     
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  7. charley

    charley Well-Known Member


    Yeah, yeah, yeah. A youngster could buy numismatic cleaning kits from Sears in 1959. I know stuff. My Dad bought stuff.

    What stuff and to what degree and where in the world is it common?
     
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  8. YoloBagels

    YoloBagels Well-Known Member

    Very true, when I was visiting coin shops in Mexico I was asked several times by different stores if I wanted them to polish the coins I bought.

    Lots of foreign dealers straight up clean their coins. It's saddening when you see coins that you know would be rare all polished up. But the coin cleaning taboo for a lot of countries is different from the US.
     
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  9. Omegaraptor

    Omegaraptor Gobrecht/Longacre Enthusiast

    "Plumbago" made me think of Red Dead Redemption... lol
     
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  10. Evan Saltis

    Evan Saltis OWNER - EBS Numis LLC

    You're thinking of lumbago ;)
     
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  11. tommyc03

    tommyc03 Senior Member

    Kinda sounds like a condition. (P) lumbago.
     
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  12. tommyc03

    tommyc03 Senior Member

    Possibly Nic-a-lene & Nic-A-Date.
     
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  13. charley

    charley Well-Known Member

    I was thinking radiated pumice rocks.
     
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  14. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    Plumbago is an old term for graphite.
     
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  15. KBBPLL

    KBBPLL Well-Known Member

    Pumice stone! The humanity...
     
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