Formula for Cleaning Coins

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*walks through thread with pants down*

 

Cleaning okay, but only by pros. NGC says so, so it must be true. John .PS: I posted this link a week or two ago .Thought it was interestinghttp://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?NewsletterNewsArticleID=453

 

Has anyone heard of this. I have read that if you take an aluminum pan and dissolve baking soda in water, in the pan, and then simply lay a silver coin in the solution so that it touches the aluminum, that tarnish will come off the coin. Since this involves no friction would it damage the coin?

 

I only want to say ,I DONT CARE IF A COINS HAS BEEN CLEANED. as long as it was done right and DOES NOT DAMAGE THE COIN. I have bought plenty of cleaned coins that ARE CLEANED the right way and not man handled or dunked into a ultra harsh dip. Hell I know a guy the tested PCGS one day and sent them somehing like 30 silver and gold coins ALL CLEANED, Guess what he got back 29 SLABBED coins and one body bagged, for tooling of all things. The best part was the one that got bagged for tooling was out of another PCGS slab that he bought with a large crack in it. Needless to say, he called PCGS about it and they asked him to send it in with te old broken slab. They ended up slabbing it AGAIN with e same info from the old broken FOR FREE> lol <. Thia person that did this is a old time coin collector like myself. But unlike him I dont have the money to play with like he does. I trust TPGS like I trust a crack dealer.

 

Thats Sorta like zapping a coin. Zapping is what is done to A LOT of very old coins and artifacts. Stuff that has been unearthed. I have played around with zappers and found that zapping almost anycoin leaves a trace of something being done to it.

 

You can also buy aluminum plates specifically made for this purpose, and it removes tarnish quite well.

However, I've only used it on my silver bullion, so I can't say one way or another if it's "safe" for collector coins. Personally, I wouldn't chance it without knowing more about the effects.

 

Oldman, you're not talking about electrolosis are you?

 

Yeah, Zapping is electrolosis.

 

Yes!:whistle:

 

I'm sure most of you have seen this already, but here's a link to an interesting article on electrolosis. You REALLY don't want to get those wires reversed...

http://www.mycoincollecting.com/collecting/cleaning-coins-electrolysis.html

 

Probably not Doug, but I'll guess you're in the minority if you've never tried, even the most basic of cleaning techniques including soap and water as a new kid coin collector. But this is all conjecture since there are so many who say they haven't but in reality they really have. It's a cyber coin collecting case of "Who Hit John..."

Personally, all I used to use was baking soda, salt and, lemon juice. Now, where I got this recipe for a coin cleaning concoction who knows but it must have been told to me by someone and I don't think it was my folks. If I recall correctly the "Ellen Trout New Zoo Review" a program which came on Saturday afternoons (out of Lufkin, Tx) talked one weekend about coin collecting and how to clean them.

Take Care
Ben

 

Oh yes, I've used that when cleaning ancients.

Ben