Help Cleaning of Silver Coins OOPS

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What happened to the other post?

 

cmbdii, I guess ebay will never ask for your endorsement. We agree on the ebay thing and I think we would agree on the fact that if a coin is in bad shape and could be fixed up, fix it and enjoy it as such. My problem is also with those who pass off damaged coins as BU's. Hey they used to hang horse thieves and they used to collapse buildings on contractors who built faulty houses,middle eastern thing from way back, so why can't ebay at least screen their major dealers? Then I would buy for who wants hassels over the internet.

 

"The site owner dropped by"

That's Peter, right?

 

Pete pulled it. It seems that only our fearless mod, GDJ is allowed to make rude comments here.

 

No, it isn't "horsepuckey" at all. Silver colloids were used as antibiotics for decades before the development of sulfa drugs. Silver has exactly the effect on milk at room temperature as I described and the practice of using a large silver coin or spoon in a pitcher of milk is still common worldwide. Hollow sterling baby rattles are still sold and are used widely enough that the major sterling jewelry manufacturers are still producing them. I know this because I retail sterling jewelry and my main supplier offers the rattles in his catalog. The FDA regulates colloidal silver and the regulations have grandfather provisions for silver colloid producers.

If you disagree, why not make a case for your disagreement instead of posting a rude, childish comment? You can get Peter to pull this too if you like, but your own rude silliness will still show members here how you debate. A moderator has a responsibility to refrain from flaming forum participants. Show some responsibility.

 

Yep, there are sellers on ebay who will misrepresent coins. Ebay is a venue I just won't use any more. I found a few coin dealers there who I'd buy from without ebay involvement if they'd like to sell to me, but no more of the ebay auctions for me.

I'll clean a coin if there's something on it that will ruin it. I'll also buy coins that have been cleaned. Plenty of buyers don't mind a cleaned coin as long as they know that's what they're getting.

 

Well distilled water will not clean a coin. It does neutralize some of the acids in other cleaners. Despite some other claims, a coin should not be cleaned. While it was accepted practice in times past, none of us live in that time. We either have to accept the given practice or work towards changing it. NCS offers a conservation service through its counterpart NGC. If you decide to clean your coins, you will effect the value of that coin. While some sell many of these without cause, it is still effecting the value at some point to some collector. So if they can live with that, more power to them.

 

I've often wondered, what's the difference between "conservation" and "cleaning"?

 

Conservation is being cleaned by a few accepted people who believe they can do it better than the rest of us. (that is supposed to be an attempt at humor)

I have seen a few examples of coins cleaned (conserved) by NCS and was very impressed. I could not distinguish them from an original coin.

Now I personally view thousands of coins a year, and this proceedure that they use, is great. I don't know if it will last, or be accepted in the future, but it is the only way to bring out the features of a toned coin and still retain the value.