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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;claycad, post: 1155489, member: 17987&quot;]<b>Baking Soda</b></p><p><br /></p><p>So here&#039;s another method I came across the I sacrificed a coin to try out on. It is to use only baking soda, no water or anything else, just the power on the coin and rub for several seconds. So I tried it on one of my less valuable Morgans. Now the author of the article said he would often get very tarnished Morgans in a value bin for $13 or so, clean with baking soda and resale them on auction sites for a $10+ profit. Here are the results I got.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]119664.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It certainly shined it up, but my question is were all those scratches there before and the caked on crud filled them in and kept them from showing, or did baking soda scratch it that bad? I know it would be abrasive, but I did expect a few seconds of rubbing to do that much scratching. The scratches aren&#039;t as noticeable with the naked eye as they are in the scan. I think the scanner light hitting them made them much more obvious. It did shine it up without making it look to shiny though like dipping a coin often will. Either way I probably won&#039;t be doing this with any of my other silver dollars, Morgan or otherwise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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