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<p>[QUOTE="Steamandlight, post: 2464954, member: 56876"]I'm going to pick out some more messy junk silver, probably. The quarter in the lower left, the 4th one, did well in the acetone. The rest, the stains may have lightened a bit, but not much else happened. I'm going to look for ones with gunk that might go away. I cannot really think of any good ways to vary up what I have already done... I'm not willing to use any other "cleaners" or dips, it's just not a good idea, IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also want to find a few damaged coins that still have some decent toning, I want to make SURE that the acetone won't get rid of toning before I risk any better coins on even an acetone dip. I have quite a few GOOD coins that I should probably at least dip, just in case of oils or pvc residue, but I am waiting until I feel confident to do that. Some of them are multi-hundred dollar coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>So for now, just testing several times on different coins I'd just sell for melt anyways.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note - I did NOT use distilled water on these, because I do not have any right now. I'll be using distilled as soon as I can get to a store and pick some up, though. Doubt it would make a difference on these.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Steamandlight, post: 2464954, member: 56876"]I'm going to pick out some more messy junk silver, probably. The quarter in the lower left, the 4th one, did well in the acetone. The rest, the stains may have lightened a bit, but not much else happened. I'm going to look for ones with gunk that might go away. I cannot really think of any good ways to vary up what I have already done... I'm not willing to use any other "cleaners" or dips, it's just not a good idea, IMO. I also want to find a few damaged coins that still have some decent toning, I want to make SURE that the acetone won't get rid of toning before I risk any better coins on even an acetone dip. I have quite a few GOOD coins that I should probably at least dip, just in case of oils or pvc residue, but I am waiting until I feel confident to do that. Some of them are multi-hundred dollar coins. So for now, just testing several times on different coins I'd just sell for melt anyways. Note - I did NOT use distilled water on these, because I do not have any right now. I'll be using distilled as soon as I can get to a store and pick some up, though. Doubt it would make a difference on these.[/QUOTE]
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