baking soda + boiling water = silver cleaner?

wow, nice thread change. lol

 

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Once you learn to distinguish a damaging cleaning of coins, much of the unbridled enthusiasm of buying every coin on ebay or a coin show is gone.

 

alright, thanks.


P.S. where do you buy ezest, and does it work on copper and stuff? i have some new coins that are in horrible shape.

 

You & I know, good coins should never be cleaned, but I cannot understand why some say dipping in a caustic solution like all coin dips must be is better than letting the sulfates be removed by reaction ? Like I said before, if ya gotta, the baking soda cook gives better results, but you really have to stay on top of it. But, I think I will stick with buying proofs, anyway. lol

 

wow almost to 1,000 views, that'll be my biggest thread ever on any forums.

 

I have 2 of these plates and have used them to remove toning and rinsed the coins later with distilled water, you don't want to use baking soda use washing soda and hot but not boiling water, then rinse with distilled water. I've sent a number of these cleaned coins to PCGS and never had one rejected.

 

I was at a coin shop while visiting my daughter that had a complete set of Walkers that looked "dipped". I don't think they were deoxidized with the baking soda solution, but it was obvious that they were reduced to melt, and I know each of us has seen a lot of cleaned Mercurys. I don't think it's a good idea to clean anything that might have added value. As I said, I have cooked some junk, but never any raw keys or semis.

gary