Milk spots can literally be erased. White soft clean eraser. Or toothpaste between the fingers, I'm told. And, I've heard the milk spots may be a thing of the past. At least for Maple Leafs. The 2014's I got are a pretty neat coin indeed.
None of that methods work so well, they leave marks and scratches. If milkspots are a thing of the past is another question. I believe it when i see it. RCM have had this big problems with milkspots for many years without doing anything about it.
On another forum I frequent, there are already reports of heavy milk spotting on the 2014 maples. Shame really
Fair, they didn't do anything about it. Then, they make .9999 coins at bullion prices. There hardly is competition. Do fingers and toothpaste also leave marks? I will give it a better go.
Toothpaste is excellent.. for scratching coins up with it being so abrasive, what you really want is bullion you dont have to manipulate just to get your premium back.. as it takes time and anyone that cares about condition will notice the hairline scratches and wont offer you what you paid.. you lose your time and your money.. better to do it once and invest well. 1for1
There is a commercially available product which is essentially an acid dip sold in the USA for cleaning coins. It is fairly cheap and removes EVERYTHING instantly. I believe it is very good especially cleaning silver because there is another chemical in the mix that cleans silver beautifully. I have seen it work and the length of time in the solution is probably about one second only. The danger is leaving your coin in solution too long but for bullion I very much doubt it matters too much. Unfortunately I have not seen it for sale in Europe.
Exactly 1for1. There are no good methods that remove milkspots. They are either not working so well or leave marks and scratches.
Isn't it appalling that we even have to discuss removing flaws from a brand new pure silver bullion coin?
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Yes. No, it does not work good and it leaves marks. There are no known ways to remove milk spots without damaging the coin.
It works fantastically well provided you use a quality eraser and apply next to no pressure. Derwent make very good erasers.
I tried with 2 brand new quality rubbers, very gentle. That works a bit if its very tiny milk spots (you can still see you rubbed there). On bigger milk spots it dont. It leaves marks. I havent seen any test on the internet that does not leave anymarks. Maybe you have another thought of what "fantastically well" is? For me its not leaving any marks at all. I agree it can look better though, but its not perfect at all. Or do you really mean that it dont, and that you can remove the milk spots with no trace? If that is the case its breaking news i would say. Maybe you can make a video or good quality pictures showing a milk spotted coin before and after? It would be the first!
