Cleaned my first coin....

I keep hearing about these mythical Morgans worth melt value, but I never run across anyplace selling Morgans for melt even if very worn.

 

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Yes.... but remember.... one man's rubbish is another man's treasure.



How true, my good man, how true. Care for some bubbly?

 

Oh Mark_h , that is a very common error for the Arizona Statehood Quarter. And IMHO the results you got were less than fair. I wouldn't keep that coin in any collection. No offense. I don't think I would have made the post either.

 

Should use an eraser on it also

 

An eraser mixed with comet works wonders! :thumb:

Ribbit

 

I find Bar Keepers Friend with SOS pads works better. LOL

 

He didn't clean, he just dipped once. Only got to first base.

Jim

 

Why wouldn't I make the post? I enjoyed the comments. The green stuff is gone. While it is a very common variety(it must be since I found them) it was worth the dip. I don't get to add many coins to my collection from pocket change that are varieties(or at least ones I recognize). I take the good with the bad on my posts and this was a fun thread. Certainly enjoyed the comments.

Like jloring - I like some low grade coins. I actually have some 1797 and 98's large cents that I have actually held. I have even pulled one out for others to hold and feel. There is nothing like holding one and thinking what it must have been like when the coin was in circulation.

 

Like jloring - I like some low grade coins. I actually have some 1797 and 98's large cents that I have actually held.


Good God man!! You HELD it? In your very own hands????? Holy Schnikees!! I hope that you didn't breathe on it or otherwise further abuse it!....Do you know that your coin is now a "problem" coin??, and it will forever and ever be one? Why about the people, several thousand years from now who MAY want to cast their own eyes upon it?? You completely ruined their possibilities of getting any enjoyment out of it whatsoever. Further, we ALL now know about this and the guilt of it will be yours and yours alone for generations!!!...For God's sake....throw it away immediately and get a new one!! The nerve of some people..SHEESH!!
(or of course, you could have it "professionally restored", in which case, none of the above would apply it'd be just fine). Good day!

 

I knew there was a reason I liked you Tom. Classic Stuff.

 

Oh yeah, Mark h. Welcome to our side. You have now entered the Twilight Zone. Who knows, you might start on some dirty wheat cents and use a rose thorn and oil. This will be a dark path if you enter and I don't know if you will make it out alive. Keep a cow bell on so we can find you in the darkness. :bigeyes:

 

I like to clean my coins too... I always take them out of the packaging after buying them and usually get them dirty in my pocket...with the rest of my change...
so I always throw them in the clothes washer and add extra Era to make them sparkly and I never forget to throw in a piece of peppermint candy to get that mint state back on my coins...
just a secret between me and anyone that reads this. that's the most closely guarded secret in cleaning coins with a "piece of peppermint candy"...spearmint just won't do it... I've tried...

 

G,Day CCA [Coin Cleaners Anonymous]
I am hoping for some advice on cleaning copper coins,I have about
100 to be cleaned,will soaking them in coca-cola overnight work??.

Very Best Regards Gazza.

 

like to clean my coins too... I always take them out of the packaging after buying them and usually get them dirty in my pocket...with the rest of my change...
so I always throw them in the clothes washer and add extra Era to make them sparkly and I never forget to throw in a piece of peppermint candy to get that mint state back on my coins...
just a secret between me and anyone that reads this. that's the most closely guarded secret in cleaning coins with a "piece of peppermint
candy"...spearmint just won't do it... I've tried...

I would never do that. What I do is put 'em in a vacuum sealed, light evading, pressurized and climate controlled box, packed with silicon gel in all possible locations in the box where there could be human air. Then, I run as fast as I can to where I am going to store them (call ahead to my destination first, of course, in order to have any possible humans vacated for a few hundred thousand square feet). Next, I put myself in a great big plastic baggie (to cut down on possible contamination from breathing), and I roll (cause it's tough to walk in a big baggie) across my floor, straight to their Halon equipped, de-humidified, sterile environment where they are to be stored, put them in there and run away even faster than I got there. Lastly, I stack ten foot thick walls of 55 gallon drums filled with acetone around them (just in case the halon fails to put out the fire and de-pressurizes the environment causing non-coin loving air to seep in) where I have a sledgehammer right next to them in order to break them, thus flooding the environment with this non-damaging, coin friendly solvent that immediately destroys any existing harm that could come to them (until it evaporates of course), then reseal everything in plastic (hopefully before all the acetone dries) and hope for the best. If all that fails, then I just throw them away and get new ones!

 

I know you guys are just fun'ing, driving home a point or 2, but if you would rather spend the time studying chemical processes and such, I can get some references for you, and they would be outside of the forum, so it wouldn't be the same-o, same-o. I find the posts very humorous, but hope that newcomers realize you have a tongue in cheek.

Jim

 

Hi Jim,
Yes, any help would be appreciated,:smile

Regards Gazza.

 

I refuse to say anything on the grounds that I may incriminate you!

 

It is not the Twilight Zone, he has crossed over to the Dark Side. hya:

May the cleaning Force be with you! :hail:

Ribbit