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SHOULD I CLEAN THE COINS THAT I FOUND?
- Thread starter david764
- Start date
Of course you should. You got them out of the ground, they look ugly and you want to display them so they look cosmetically acceptable.
A nice soak in hot soapy water for an hour, then a nice easy scrub with a toothbrush is in order. If it is a rare one, have a professional clean it. Don't mix coin varieties together. Keep silver with silver, pennies with pennies, nickels with nickels and so on. Old pennies can be put in normal strength hydrogen peroxide (for about 24 hrs) , which really makes them look good, and gets rid of a lot of oxides. I also use my ultrasonic cleaner on silver coins, but NOT on copper, as it can pit them.
http://cleaningcoins.blogspot.com/
A nice soak in hot soapy water for an hour, then a nice easy scrub with a toothbrush is in order. If it is a rare one, have a professional clean it. Don't mix coin varieties together. Keep silver with silver, pennies with pennies, nickels with nickels and so on. Old pennies can be put in normal strength hydrogen peroxide (for about 24 hrs) , which really makes them look good, and gets rid of a lot of oxides. I also use my ultrasonic cleaner on silver coins, but NOT on copper, as it can pit them.
http://cleaningcoins.blogspot.com/
Uncle Willy
New member
Picking up an nexpensive tumbler is the best way to clean non-valuable coins. Harbor Freight is a good source and they often have them on sale for around twenty bucks.
Bill
Bill
I would like to weigh in. Before you clean a coin make sure it isn't extremely valuable or a real key date. It would be a shame to polish a 1916D merc or tumble a 1909s VDB Lincoln cent. For non key date coins and clad it is your decision. I tumble up my clad every couple of weeks. I do not tumble the coins that go into my brag book because I prefer them looking like they did when the came out of the ground. I do wash then in warm water with a little soap and an old soft bristle toothbrush. As far as I'm concerned my brag book is their last stop at least for my lifetime. I can only imagine some day somebody buying my book at a yardsale in 100 years and trying to recreate my hunts. By that time, I suspect my book will be quite valuable!
Get a good loop. Sometimes wetting the coin will bring out details. Examine coins in bright sunlight. If all else fails give it to a seven or eight year old. Young eyes are the sharpest.
Chris
Get a good loop. Sometimes wetting the coin will bring out details. Examine coins in bright sunlight. If all else fails give it to a seven or eight year old. Young eyes are the sharpest.
Chris