Cleaning coins?

you are all wrong!
If you want to clean your coins the right way,You should watch this .
All the other methods are destructive to your coins!!! LOL

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/784423/how_to_clean_coins_with_dirt/

If the link does not work google the video "how to clean coins with dirt"

 

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I'm not able to reference your link there but the post would indicate the "ridicule" part of my argument?? Got it..ridicule...misdirection..kinda like was done w/911. Very entertaining.

 

this video was the most ridiculous thing i have ever seen.He actually thinks this is a good way to clean his coins.
If you did not see the video, He ground the coin into the sand with his foot,to create a luster.

 

Oye VAY..

 

Tom - if you know so much and it is as easy as you say - go right ahead and tell everybody how to do all this. Provide the links you find on the internet that explain it all. Then get some coins and show us the results.

I mean if it's that easy, then you can do this - right ?
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Doug..is there really much point in attempting to do that? So it can be ridiculed and overrun with sarcasm? People who don't want to see facts in opposition to their own beliefs/opinions will just keep their heads in the sand because it's too disturbing to what they have always believed or thought to be facts (again kinda like 911 and people thinking a bunch of guys with boxcutters in a hole in a mountain outsmarted, outmaneuvered
the strongest military in the world, Norad, FAA, and whoops, buildings just "fell" down in 10 seconds from fire, 3 times in one day, one without a plane ever hitting it,and having another plane flying all around the country for over an hour, AFTER the trade centers had already fallen, without any single military jet from anywhere, being able intercept it before it crashed into the Pentagon). People believe what is "comfortable". Extreme example by comparison but absolutely no difference in the "ostritch with it's head in the sand" mentality. Bottom line..coins are a result of a chemical and mechanical process and can be "treated" with a mechanical/chemical process without all the fanfare. It's done everyday. It may not be as simplistic as you seem to think that I think that it is....but it certainly isn't as complex and scary as it's made out to be in here. I haven't found a "simplistic" formula that applies to all coins/conditions, but I have found several dealing with some forms of copper at least.

 

Cleaning coins

I ama newbie here , even I know by reading coin talk you never clean a coin . Besides damaging the coin, read the lable and some of the ingrediants that it contains, you actually breath it, and if you spill a little on on you I imagine It would burn a little, and damage the carpet or whatever type of floor you have, because if it cleans all the crap on the coin I would hate to see what other damage it would do. I know my wife would kill me and take my spending money away. But the saftest way and causing less damage to the coin , I would use coke cola, It cleans up battery post real good , caffine free & diet :bigeyesf course , It would be simple , all you would have to do is watch it work. just joking never clean a coin ! JUST GO TO SEARCH AND READALL THE PREVIOUS COMMENTS ON THIS SUBJECT AND READ IT AGAIN EVERY TIME YOU THINK ABOUT CLEANING A COIN , I have found some cleaned coins not only by apperance but they felt slick and greasy. I have learned by this site and reading magazines and books, that some dirty coins have thair beauty in the coins way.

 

Hello! I'm new to these forums and I decided to register so I could join in on the conversation.
Well I have a rather large wheat and Indian head penny collection. I collect pennies because it is interesting to me to have something in my possession that has seen 100+ years of history.And in no way would I call my self a professional collector, though I do know more about my pennies than the average person does. Anyway I have used a copper polish I found in my basement to clean a few of them just so I could make them shiny and pretty to show friends, I'm not in it for the money I just collect them. And as far as I can tell the polish hasn't done any damage to the coins. I have not seen a uncirculated IHP in real life so I can only compare it to New Pennies (I am aware that they are made from different metals) and wheaties that are in good condition. The Pennies I have cleaned with the polish do look very good in comparison to other non cleaned coins that are already in good condition. I experimented with other common house hold cleaners I found around the house and chemicals used for cleaning rust do a wonderful job with 1943 steel pennies. I had a Steel penny that was absolutely covered in rust. To remove the rust I placed it in a cup that had CLR in it over night and when I pulled it out the rust completely vanished. I also placed a 1907 IHP in the CLR (The coin was already worthless and in bad shape) and sure enough it ate away at it destroying the penny.
From my little experience I can say that even though cleaning may make the coin worth less money it can if done correctly make it look very nice. The people I have shown my cleaned pennies to have been impressed by it. And if you are like me and collect coins for reasons other than potentially making money cleaning an old coin could be rewarding.
If you are unlike me and want to make money off old coins then Do Not Clean Them!

 

YOU have the choice it is your coin , but someday you will dhow the coins to a friend relative, and they will say that is a nice coin but i believe it has been cleaned .Personaly i sell coins in my antique shop and collect
them, i do not clean any of them .I would rarher have friends etc. look at the actual appreance, but that is everyones choice, as long as you enjoy the hobby :high5: