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<p>[QUOTE="coin_nut, post: 3210913, member: 80148"]I have some coins which have been cleaned. I sweat a lot here in the tropics, so I keep them on my desk and rub them on my neck once or twice a day, hoping to lay some tarnish on those too shiny surfaces. </p><p><br /></p><p>As an aside, I spent a hour or more with a man last week who was refinishing cast brass Buddhas at a near by temple. First he scrubbed them with a brass wire brush dipped in some liquid. The brass came out almost white. Then he painted coat after coat of another type of liquid which would impart an aged, darker color to the surface of the brass statues. I brought one small brass casting of my own and had him paint some of the tarnishing agent on it. I did not do that with any coins, and do not know just what chemicals he was using.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="coin_nut, post: 3210913, member: 80148"]I have some coins which have been cleaned. I sweat a lot here in the tropics, so I keep them on my desk and rub them on my neck once or twice a day, hoping to lay some tarnish on those too shiny surfaces. As an aside, I spent a hour or more with a man last week who was refinishing cast brass Buddhas at a near by temple. First he scrubbed them with a brass wire brush dipped in some liquid. The brass came out almost white. Then he painted coat after coat of another type of liquid which would impart an aged, darker color to the surface of the brass statues. I brought one small brass casting of my own and had him paint some of the tarnishing agent on it. I did not do that with any coins, and do not know just what chemicals he was using.[/QUOTE]
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