I'd want to use it to try to remove milk spots off my maples. Jewelry cloth and a dip in e*Z*est Coin cleaner works to a degree, but it's so time consuming and the results aren't always the best. If you have silver coins with milk spots and care to share pics, please reply to the thread with them, I'm curious to see what coins people have spotted them on besides maple leafs. thanks! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbAGvLfOmw4[/youtube]
The dreaded spots Lots of useful info in this thread http://forums.silverstackers.com/topic-5403-removing-milk-spots-from-coins-rounds.html
at the premium you pay for maples , milk spot dont really matter, the wildlife series on the other hand...
No cure for the POX, sell (put them down and buy bars!) Or send them to a pox colony (but not australia) 1for1
Cloudy ammonia is just regular clear ammonia with a little soap added. Like whitewall tyres. Car tyres were originally made from india rubber latex (which is white). Adding carbon black made the tyres last much longer but purists wouldn't switch because they trusted their old brands, so the manufacturers left the sidewalls untreated and white to show customers they were buying an india rubber tyre. Over the years, the whitwalls became smaller and smaller until all that remained were pinstripes and lettering. When they started making ammonia it was always cloudy. Eventually they found a way of clarifying it, but by then everyone was used to the cloudy stuff. So the manufacturers added a little soap to make the clear stuff cloudy. Don't bother looking for cloudy ammonia it's just a marketing ploy...the clear stuff will do exactly the same job.
The only thing that matters with Maples is their weight. Cheapest coin to buy but also one of the purest so a real shame that they do suffer from silverpox. Our new 2013 fine silver Britannia suffers from a lot worse - scuffs, pits and reeded tracks and our Royal Mint is in total denial. QC has a new meaning - " Queen's Crap ".
I find the Philharmonics to be worse than the Maples for milk spots but that might just be my experience with them. I don't mind the spots, in fact I look for them to know I have got genuine Maples. It's bullion Silver so really who cares, If I came out and said I would buy spotted Maples off anyone for spot then people would say my offer is a low-ball so think about it, it doesn't really matter.
Ultimately it's not that big a deal, true. I would take milk spotty maples over shiny fake coins, but I would take shiny libertads over milkspotty maples, in hindsight.
