i got a very nice roll of 1996 silver eagles and on the rim of one coin i seen back marker it looked like so i thought i would try the acetone but after dipping it there was a haze on the coin. can i get the haze off the coin by dipping it into coin cleaner without hurting the coin. because it was one that i wanted to get graded.
this is a case to show why coins should never be cleaned. When not done right, or possibly in this case, where it could have been doen right, it just didnt 'take', it ruins the coin. I dont know if the haze can be rid of, but im sorry to hear you lost a nice coin
Sorry bout your luck, but I think at this point it is done for. I am sure you will now get some vigorous responses. Maybe some distilled water - not sure since I have never tried this.
Don't use the coin dip. If the acetone is contaminated ( maybe the coin itself) , it may deposit a thin film on the coin as it evaporates. Try holding the coin vertically and pour some "pure" unused acetone over it, and hold it vertically until the acetone on the coin evaporates. Whole process should take just a few seconds. You can collect the acetone in a clean glass container, and if the haze was removed, discard it or label it accordingly as contaminated. Pure acetone itself will not cause the haze. Jim
Did you run the coin under hot water? I have always heard that IF you do decide to clean your coins that running them under hot water helps raise the temp of the coin and therefore helps with the evaporation of the water on the coin. Personally, and probably a lot of collectors will tell you this... unless it is a coin that absolutely means nothing, then fine go ahead and do that...... but I don't want the coin to be exposed to massive temperature changes. What I do if I should clean a coin is run it under warm water (as close to room temp as possible). Then lightly blow dry it off with a hair dryer that only blows cool air. My wife has one that does and it works well. I don't do it often, but it seem to work for me. The 96 ASE is one of the bigger ones and much attention should be brought to this. I would redip it in acetone and run through the steps above and see if that works. Then if that fails, at that point the 96 is probably ruined and I would just dip it in silver cleaner.... but really, really quick (<5sec) and see if that does anything. I hope everything works out.
i tryed it but the coin still has a haze on it, haveing a back marker on rim will that keep a coin from grading a ms 70. because see see coin graders holding the coin with there hands on the rim. i know it was black marker because the acetone took it off. here a picture of the coin i dipped in acetone.
the guy i got these from got three rolls in 96 and picked 20 coins to keep and sold the other two rolls years ago. i think when he was going threw the coins he used a black marker on some of the rims. but he told me he did not but out of the 20 there is five i will send in for grading someday when i get around to it. there was five with no coin marks on them at all. its just hard times and hes selling his coins, i was lucky enough to get this roll for $1000.00
