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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iPen, post: 3056303, member: 69760&quot;]I use acetone on copper all the time with great results. One instance where it didn&#039;t go as well as I hoped, however, is when acetone made my Wheat cent more lustrous (which isn&#039;t a bad thing, per se, but I really liked the way the patina looked). </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the picture <i>prior</i> to the acetone bath - it had this really sweet matted pearl look brought on by the verdigris. But, I left the cent in the bath for a couple days or so, given all of the gunk. Had I known the matte appearance would completely &quot;fall&quot; off, I would have swished it around for a few seconds instead. I sent it into PCGS and they gave it an MS 64 RB - had it not been given the acetone bath, it most certainly would have come back as an MS 64 BN. Though again, I&#039;d prefer the original look with a BN over an RB.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2017-4-6_18-44-36-png.608696/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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