cleaning

Aside from dusting, can the crud be cleaned safely from the GOD WE area and maybe below the LIBERTY?

 

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yes it can use verdigone ( i havent used it and its expensive, NCS (again expensive), or biox (used it it works) no matter what you do coin will get altered to a degree

 

This was just a junk example I had lying around. It isn't that I am attached to the coin. It was an example of a dirty coin.
-Andy

 

simple answer, cleaning a coins is just that cleaning it. when a coin is like the one pictured, isnt there usually damage beneath it? i always thought you couldnt have one without the other in a case like this, but i could be mistaken.

i would let it be, but try to stop the green from getting worse if possible.

 

Try a toothpick and a paper towel if you just want to get the gunk off. It might hurt the coin though. I would just leave it on the coin, its part of its story.

 

Nitric acid and some steel wool will get rid of that ugly blight

 

ya that wud help

 

Oooh I wouldn't risk using steel wool on it. That would dull up the main features pretty bad.
http://www.dremel.com/en-us/AttachmentsAndAccessories/Pages/AttachmentsDetail.aspx?pid=463
Try that they probably sell it at home depot. It is a pointed rubber cleaning tip for a dremel.

 

I'm sure he was kidding.

 

Am I correct that that coin is off center?

 

Yeah I believe so now that I look at it without being deprived of sleep . Whatever that dremel thing is actually pretty sweet.

 

I think you are just seeing the shadow from the angle at which I shot the coin. But then I don't pay any attention to error coins.

 

Not sure of the best way to clean it , but leaving it on will only make it get worse till the whole coin is covered .
rzage

 

So how long does that kind of damage take? Months? Years?

 

Depends on the enviroment it's in , but it could at least triple in a year .
rzage