The grille cleaner that I use to clean gunk off of coins

Nope

 

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Gawd! Can't believe what I'm reading here. Did I fall asleep and someone changed the channel?

 

I don't think there is a problem playing with worthless coins (from a collector's standpoint). Grubby common cents and SBDs are fine...play all you want. But understand, you are more than likely harming the coins (despite what you seem to think). Don't allow yourself to fall into the belief that this really isn't harmful and then graduate to coins with collector value. I think the reason that many members come down so hard on these kinds of threads is that if a new member who didn't know any better saw it...they might try it without realizing the damage it can do. So, you have to be careful in how you talk about these "great products." If the coin is a common modern of face value...have at it, just make sure you are making it clear that this is not to be used on a coin of any value.

 

Such a multitude of sins to be released upon the uninitiated........

 

It's a corrosive, and also contains an acid.

 

ROTFLMAO

 

Here's a garden variety 1953-P nickel in well-worn condition that I pulled out of a bank wrapped roll tonight. I gave 5 cents for it, and it's probably worth 5 cents. I soaked it for maybe 15 minutes and sprayed it with hot water and it cleaned right up.

Before:



After:

 

Spend them or give them away to a young numismatist but never clean them with anything. I run into coins or tokens all the time that I'd like to clean but I never do. I don't even dip coins anymore although I have tried it in the past, guess you could say I learned my lesson.

 

Nice job Bugo!
I may start a thread entitled 'stick your finger in an electrical socket' and claim it makes your hair straighter and your eyes brighter!!.
He says he doesnt use it on valuable coins...........meaning he uses it on junk only. People generally learn better from making their own mistakes..........no thread claiming that hair remover/eyedrops/fly spray/milk/a sideways glance/rain/fruit yoghurt/happiness/marmite/soap/beef jerkie/paul Newmans BBQ marinade, cleans coins will either encourage people to use it or not use it, let them make their own mistakes......
(btw, I would imagine that the BBQ marinade would be quite good as it probably has vinegar in it, and you could suck it off the coins...mmmmmm)

 

It shows.

 

Question. For the nickel he posted above, do you (the people coming down on this thread) feel he did wrong there? I mean the coin is cleaned and harmed now, but it was junky and ugly in the first place. Perhaps there is a better alternative, but putting that aside do you feel what he did actually did any harm?

Also, I'm not talking about the potential harm of this thread/OP, with newbs coming along and being like "Oh cool now I know what to use to clean all my coins!". I'm just speaking of what he actually did with that nickel.

 

Coca-Cola is good too. Soak it for a few months.

 

No, it doesnt. If you didnt know what he had used you wouldnt say anything. How does it show? could you evidence that comment maybe? From what I can make out, most residue has gone and the detail does not appear to have been damaged. I would prefer the cleaned coin to the uncleaned.

 

Oh boy here we go.

 

heck, I'm not after an argument, but I do prefer it when people evidence their comments.........I shall say nothing further on the matter for fear of upsetting someone. I am off to buy a load of 'Nutella', which I hear is great for repatinating stripped coins.

 

Go look through some threads. If you read any ten from what's it worth, you'll find at least one that's been cleaned. That's how common and easily identifiable (to the knowledgeable, not me) it is.

You know when people tell you they know, and you think they don't know, but they really do know? And then you're like derp?

 

I hope that folks will read & try to understand this simple post from Bugo & GDJMSP. IMO the appearance of the coin in the after photo is no longer something that an experienced coin collector would ever want to purchase. IMO the coin's potential value has been harmed by the process. I suspect that a coin's potential value is important to all of us yes?

 

Did someone say "derp"?

 

Would an experienced coin collector want the coin in the before picture either? probably not......