Polishing a coin

Discussion in 'World Coins' started by Bill in Burl, Mar 19, 2020.

  1. Bill in Burl

    Bill in Burl Collector

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  3. vintagemintage

    vintagemintage Well-Known Member

    To all but a fresh novice collector, sacrilege. If you like to make dazzlingly shiny objects out of coins that will forever be worth face value or metal content, with maybe a slight exception for making jewelry, have fun.
     
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  4. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    polishing a coin=no collector value. ;)
     
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  5. Paul M.

    Paul M. Well-Known Member

    I don't think that coin ever had any collector value to begin with.
     
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  6. Paddy54

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  7. fretboard

    fretboard Defender of Old Coinage!

    Unfortunately polished coins are frowned upon by coin collectors. Jewelry makers make use of them but not coin collectors. Just a heads up! :D
     
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  8. gronnh20

    gronnh20 Well-Known Member

    Not a good idea. He/she did not do the reverse.

    I can still tell the coin is cleaned.
     
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  9. dirty_brian

    dirty_brian Well-Known Member

    I was slightly entertained. amazing how shiny it became. I wouldn't recommend doing that to anything other than common circulation coins
     
  10. vintagemintage

    vintagemintage Well-Known Member

    Both true!
     
  11. eddiespin

    eddiespin Fast Eddie

    Did you ever think, if you like to polish coins, why don't you just collect Polish coins? Now come on, I can't be the only one who thought of that.
     
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  12. vintagemintage

    vintagemintage Well-Known Member

    In that case, just polish Polish coins. A purist of this endeavor would use Polish polish
     
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  13. eddiespin

    eddiespin Fast Eddie

    Polish coins are already Polish so they don’t need no stinking polish.
     
  14. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    That video has been linked to before, though I don't remember which thread it was. Sure, it's numismatic sacrilege (especially if it had been done on a coin with any value), but just in terms of basic metal polishing, it's pretty impressive.
     
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