I like Cleaned Coins and you should to thread

Touché, my good friend. I've been meaning to get one of those jobs, too, but I'm fussy about the country. Besides, I'm up for career advancement, from drive-up window to indoors-cashier. That's where the real money is in this racket.

 

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some dove dish washing soap and a soft toothpick is very good to remove gum and tarnish off of older coins. I used this on my 1831 Half Dollar and it worked very well. I brought it for $60 and sold it for 110.

 

But you didn't answer his question. Does it make him a fraud for listing a cleaned coin and describing it as such?

 

You ain't never gonna make it in politics. Too much sense.

 

What's quick way to detected that pennies has been dipped? It has no sign of harsh cleaning, but how can I know it's a true RB instead of being dipped?

 

If you can't detect it, it has never been cleaned...that is of course unless you did it yourself. I am not convinced that all cleaning will leave detectable traces.

 

I have batch of wheats and pulled nice quality out of the batch, but some color that cause me to suspense that it was dipped or it's natural toned color? Your opinion?

 

I don't like cleaned coins. They take away the frostiness of the silver and give it a dark and dull appearance. Cleaning coins has removed details on both the obverse and reverse of my collection. I inherited 33 sadly polished morgan and peace dollars, all of which I believed to have been cleaned from relatives that have now passed away.

 

And usually yours is the most common of sense. I agree with 90-95% of what you say (and might be wrong about the rest), but I reserve the right to clarify. Copper is more active than silver, but not by a lot. Copper is still much less reactive than for example nickel, although we see more environmental damage to copper than to nickel. Now zinc...I don't know if I have seen many attractive zinc coins.

 

I think nickel's difference is that it tends to form a tough and colorless oxide coating, which protects it from further attack.

Zinc is a soft, reactive mess. I saw an article in our newspaper a week or two ago singing the praises of the newly-trendy zinc roof. I have no idea what they're thinking.

 

Agree about the nickel, and that brings to mind aluminum coins and the aluminum oxide protective coat. Does anyone know stuff about early aluminum coins? I know there is a special presentation set of American coins made of Al back in the late 1800's. When were the first Al coins made for circulation?

 

You have to be careful when you scrub it, though, so as to not to scratch the surface.

Teddy

 

Use SoftScrub

 

Collect what YOU like

 

If you use softscrub, does it not leave residue behind? Isn't a silver polish tarnix better?

 

bravo bravo