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very interesting information Owle.. I will, in the future, never clean with a cotton swab ... I have sooo learned my lesson.. a very costly lesson indeed.

 

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Indeed. But still, consider yourself lucky you found one, I'd kill to find a CAM.

 

words can't describe how excited I was!! It was like being 5 at Christmas all over again.. lol

 

That's how I felt when I found my '99 WAM. A CAM would probably give me an aneurysm from the blood rush to my head.

 

ah hahahahaa..... you're so funny! I've found several 2000 WAM's and 2 1998 WAM's but no 1999's... yet.... hehe

 

what I was trying to clean up was a presedential dollar (circulated) for one of my folders. I just wanted to make it a little more shiny.

 

Brasso would work, polish it up nice and shiny. Of course if you do that it will never be worth more than a dollar. On the other hand if you don't clean it it will still probably never be worth more than a dollar.


This is a joke and is not to be construed as being an endorsement or recommendation for polishing a coin.

 

If it's a circulated coin and will never be worth more than face value, then I don't see a problem with cleaning the coin. If it will have much more value to it, then don't.

 

ya theres nothing special about the coins I want to polish. They will always be worth face value.

 

Sorry to dig up an older thread, but I just wanted to ask a question along these lines and didn't feel it warranted a whole new thread...

Anyways, if I'm placing circulated coins in an album can I wipe them down with a soft cotton towel just to get the dust and fingerprints off, or is this considered cleaning and ruining any potential value they may someday hold?

 

You might as well have used sandpaper.

 

Don't wipe, dab, and you should be fine. Better yet, just give them a quick dip in acetone.

 

Thanks, I'll put the cotton cloth to use on the windows where it belongs. :thumb:

 

Arn't most pockets made with cotton linings? He did say it was circulated coins.

Simple fact of the whole thing is that most coins that are now in circulation will only ever be worth there face value.

 

I use soap and hydrochloric acid.

 

If you want to clean the surfaces in a non-abrasive fashion, you could use an ultrasonic cleaner; sounds more expensive than it is. They are available for less than $50. You put the coin in the plastic basket, a weak detergent solution in the bath area and let it run until the problem dirt, grease, etc. are gone.

 

make sure you dont use toilet water

 

Your better choice would have been to set the coin aside, and reviewed the POPs for the coin, and come back to it another day with higher magnification to verify that it was indeed a 1992D CAM. Then you should have left the coin alone (uncleaned) and put it into NCS for conserving and then to be graded.

I found a 1999 WAM which is now going through NCS first, and I am hoping that they can do something for the coin first, but if not it will be graded with the grime that was on it. Time will tell. I only gave it to them on Friday.

 

Wow, am so sorry, didn't realize this was so recent. I am heartbroken for you.