Before and After

Just bought my first 5 oz. jar of ezest the other day and tried it out today. I tried it on 2 silver halves and a clad quarter. Here are the results for the quarter. I have to say it looked nicer before than after . It looks very dead now. But hey, it's just my first try. You might say I was trying to kill it, seeing as how I left it in the ezest for 5 minutes . It's just worth face anyways, so no real harm done . I have to find out the strength of the stuff and the length for the dip before try it on anything else.

Before:



After:



My setup:



P.S: You don't have to worry about me selling dipped morgans on ebay. Ain't gonna happen. What I'm doing is merely experimentation.

 

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hmmm...well atleast you don't have to worry about your fingers getting dirty anymore from the coins, the bowls look like there from the Cracker Barrel, just wondering

 

Oh, the humanity!!!
(Sorry, I just had a flash back.)

 

What's e-zest? I've never heard of it before. Is it for cleaning coins? If so, what's the point? Or is it one of those "oxy" all-purpose cleaners for around the house that you just happened to try on some old coins?

I'm so confused!!!!!!!

 

Whta's that falling from his rear end after cleaning?

Did you scar the ...what... out of him?

Maybe try another coin and see if it happenes again?


:stooge:

 

It's mostly a toning remover that restores the bright white surface of the coin (as long as you don't leave it in there too long ). And as long as it hasn't been dipped in the past. The more you dip a coin the duller it gets.

 

I'm not sure what it is, but it isn't tarnish or toning.

 

Thank you posting your experiment...

Please continue to do so as we are very interested in your results...

:bow:

 

Believe it or not, the stuff smells like mint-flavored mouthwash.

 

please stop all this cleanign experimenting. All it does is ruin lower grade coins and higher grade alike. It may make the coin 'appear' shinier, but in the end it does more damage then good. There is no point in ruining lower grade coins just so you can dip higher grades. What will you do with the higher grade cleaned coins? sell them, trade them, get them graded? The only thing accomplished with cleaning or dipping coins is taking 1 more good collectible coin off the market for serious collectors.


i will now go on a flogging spree of all those who invented coin cleaning agents.

 

I don't advocate stripping coins of their original surfaces by any means (especially when I cannot find original 19th Century type coins, even in slabs), but I believe that some people dillute the EZest so that it is less concentrated. Maybe it will work better that way.

 

Nice spoons

 

I was thinking the same thing.

 

well after laughing hysterically over the 'falling from rear' post, I also noted those nice silver spoon

 

Why thank you. LOL twiggs they're not silver. At least, I don't think they are.

 

I respect your opinion but dipping a coin will not necessarily ruin it. 99.9% of all white morgans out there have been dipped at least once. I'm just going to continue experimenting with low value stuff. It's just like doing a chemistry experiment.

 

Do you have a source for this?

 

I think it's an excellent idea to clean a few coins this way. There is no better method of learning how to identify cleaned coins than to clean them yourself. Then you quickly develop an eye for "the look" that over-dipped coins have. It's better than reading about it.