Cleaning coins

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Cleaning coins

Cleaning coins should be taken with caution, since improper cleaning, may lose value more than once, or even just go “dead”. You have to remember that you should avoid any mechanical cleansing and the widespread use of acids. If you know what currency the value of real money, it is better to pay the money and give it to cleaning specialist.

Best to just rinse it in parts with SOAP and water or even placed in the solution for a few days. Should leave all dirt. Never use acids and cleaning.

Want to bring out the shine in those old coins your parents or grandparents gave you? Think twice before cleaning them. If the coins are collectible or valuable, cleaning will almost always reduce their value — sometimes by as much as 90% — and cleaning won’t improve their grading (the standards used by coin collectors and dealers to evaluate a coin), so you should usually let them be. If, however, you’ve just got some old coins around that aren’t worth much more than their face value, but which you would still like to make more presentable, you can usually clean them up pretty nicely without damaging their surfaces too noticeably.

Silver also is cleaned from the weak solution of citric acid. You can also try to clean the coins and copper. One of the best ways to clean silver this is the usual solution of baking soda and rub your fingers porridge currency. All dirt should be left behind, and the currency to buy a nice shine.

Spot-clean encrusted dirt. Especially on ancient coins, there may be dirt that remains after soaking and brushing. To remove this, use a small, sharp implement such as a toothpick, precision screwdriver. Carefully pry and chip off the encrusted dirt, and try not to scratch the surface of the coin. You can spot-clean more precisely if you work under good lighting and use a microscope or magnifying glass.

The many copper coins of a greenish patina. It is very harmful, but you can try to remove the coin in distilled water (change the water several times). After the currency should be cleaned with rubbing alcohol. It happens that the Greens had clean needles, but it’s better not to do so. In General, not to sell the coins. Of course, they really lose in price, but even this price is much higher than those that would arise from improper cleaning.

After cleaning the copper coins may take pink bright red color, which lose in patina. The new force is not difficult patina. I used to do simple manganese and copper sulphate (can be purchased from the shop garden and sugar snap). In one liter of water to mix 5 g of manganese and 50 grams of copper sulfate. The currency should remain in even solving decides under Brown is beautiful (of course you need to face down the currency).