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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1590482, member: 112"]Costello - there's not much you can do to help those coins. IMO, soaking the dimes in acetone is a waste of time. As for the cents, yes getting the verdigris off the coins will prevent further damage to them and you should do that. Get yourself some Verdi-Care, the stuff works. It won't help or improve the coins any, but it will prevent additional damage from happening. Also, if any of the silver coins have verdigris (the green/whitish stuff) on them, use Verdi-Care on them too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, get all of your coins out of those Whitman coin folders. Those things are as bad for the coins as anything is. Either put your coins in individual hard plastic coin holders, or if you insist on using albums, then spend the money and get archival quality albums. </p><p><br /></p><p>For what it's worth, I always recommend that collectors <u>never</u> use coin albums - of any kind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1590482, member: 112"]Costello - there's not much you can do to help those coins. IMO, soaking the dimes in acetone is a waste of time. As for the cents, yes getting the verdigris off the coins will prevent further damage to them and you should do that. Get yourself some Verdi-Care, the stuff works. It won't help or improve the coins any, but it will prevent additional damage from happening. Also, if any of the silver coins have verdigris (the green/whitish stuff) on them, use Verdi-Care on them too. Lastly, get all of your coins out of those Whitman coin folders. Those things are as bad for the coins as anything is. Either put your coins in individual hard plastic coin holders, or if you insist on using albums, then spend the money and get archival quality albums. For what it's worth, I always recommend that collectors [U]never[/U] use coin albums - of any kind.[/QUOTE]
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