Cleaned coins vs Uncleaned coins

Actually the really super cleaning solvent is methylene chloride, but it really evaporates quickly.

 

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I think I mentioned that in my first post.

 

And I agree with you...........zzzzzzzzzzz...sorry, cleaning something with chloroform

 

TV and movies have people believing it will put you right out, which isn't true.

 

Doesn't take very long though...I remember giving it one or two sniffs and then waiting till the disorientation passed... Nova Series 1 episode 6 is called Strange Sleep and is about anesthesia. I can't find it anywhere, but I still remember it. Morton moved on to teach in a college and spent his spare time searching for other anesthetic agents. He would bring students home with him for supper and they would sit around huffing different chemicals to see what would happen. The one with chloroform is hilarious.

 

I'll have to look for it. Diethyl ether can get you, but a lot of people get bad headaches from it. I tell them it's because they're fighting it.

 

Only one time did I ever get "high" (actually waaaaaaaaay low) on diethyl ether. Worst hangover in the world.

 

You should have said 'burro'. That flies under the radar.....

 

A beautiful patina erased forever.

 

Cleaning a coin of oxidation only exposes the horrors that may lie beneath. Even proper cleaning. The surface of the coin has changed and cannot be undone. Sometimes they may look better but there is nothing desirable under that patina, the original surface is gone. I've been playing with the notion and find that even if you can't tell a coin was cleaned the fact is a shiny coin should only be shiny if it has always been shiny, unlike my treated Wheats. I like my silver patina and I'll just let the clad ones rust. Acetone don't do anything unless you have PVC or gunk residue and most likely the coin was mistreated anyway and not even worth it. But doesn't hurt apparently. MS70 also removed PVC haze but also removes toning.

 

I just want to apologize to all the people that have all the wheat cents that I polished with a pencil eraser back in the 1960’s.

 

So that's where they came from! I gotcha now!

 

I've been playing more with this scope and found, what appeared to be scratches to the naked eye are mostly die deterioration marks on this coin. I've always believed these were wipe marks from aggressive cleaning. Some of them may be, it's hard to tell.

 

They look like cleaning marks to me.

 

That was actually quite satisfying. I didn't think it would do much.

 

Some of them, but most are raised.

 

I think my eye just twitched.

 

sorry

 

Most everything I see there are die polish lines.

 

Maybe because you actually looked. Thanks