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Put a couple tablespoons of baking soda in the bottom of the bowl which was lined with aluminum foil. Drop you silver that you'd like to remove the tarnish from in the bowl on top of the dry baking soda. Fill the bowl with a couple inches of boiling hot water over the item you're cleaning. Wait 2-5 minutes.
Lets see, ALL of the real coin people have said over and over NOT to try to clean coins. You decided to forgo that advice and dropped your Silver coins in a pretty hard acid (ph 4.25 to 5). So, you've stripped off the natural luster, you've damaged the natural finish, and now, surprise, the coins are toning down again (Oxigen and silver mix ...
Silver coins can be cleaned with toothpaste but most silvers don't need to be cleaned. If you scrub GENTLY no harm will come to a silver coin but if you scrub hard the coin will take on an unnatural look. Bullion value coins...it doesn't matter, if it's a scarce or rare date the only thing you should use s a little warm water.
My friend has some silver coins that survived a fire when his home burnt a couple years ago. And they are black and smoked up. He's wanting to clean them up, and I dont think they are no really expesive ones, I know he has several silver dollars. And I'm shure he dont think he cares about the...
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First off I should give credit to BuckleBoy for posting about this method of cleaning blackened silver. Thanks for the info it was extremely helpful. The instructions were very simple and easy to follow and it was fun to do. As you will see in the pictures below I had a couple coins that I wanted to clean.
Primary Interest: Metal Detecting. Apr 26, 2014. #6. To remove sand crusted green silver coins, I use a mild lemon water solution. Squeeze 1 lemon wedge in 1/2 cup warm water and soak for 1 hour - overnight. Follow up with a light rub with baking soda paste try not to strip all the patina.
I'm beginning to get a nice little collection of silver coins since I've taken up metal detecting again, specifically Washington quarters and Roosevelt Dimes. None are key dates thus far. Most came out of nasty hard clay and several are pretty badly tarnished. Here's an example, specifically...
Location: Undisclosed. Detector (s) used. I use, Whites MXT and Garrett AT Pro. Primary Interest: All Treasure Hunting. Jul 20, 2005. #1. FIRST: NEVER CLEAN A COIN YOU MAY THINK IS VALUALBE IF IT IS OVERWHELMINGLY DIRTY JUST RINSE IT OFF WITH WATER! My friend sprayed WD-40 on Some cheep Roman Coins and it makes them come clean easy and fast.
Very tarnished silver: Twinkle, perhaps several times. Hagerty’s Silver Polish, which is higher in whiting and very effective. (When using Hagerty’s, I used nitrile gloves, which leave no marks on the silver and are quite comfortable.) Everyday regular maintenance when tarnished: Twinkle silver polish.