shining up silver?

go this site, a member placed a while ago, my brother tested it with excellent results!

 

Tried this one last night with good results

 

What would be the best thing to clean toned silver dollars? They are about 86% silver.

 

Clean em with Bicarb and water,into a paste,and give em a gentle rub...what GP said

 

He stated that this method would harm the numismatic value. For most of them that would be fine, but the ones that have a greater value may need a different treatment or just be left alone.

 

For coins with numismatic value I tried a polishing cloth I use for jewelry. I received a 1/2 oz silver lunar Tiger today that looked F'ed up. With some light polishing it looks almost freshly minted.
These cloths can be purchased from any jewelry supply store, online or otherwise. I know they won't scratch the metal and since no chemicals are used it seems as safe a solution as possible.

 

In order to remove tarnish, the cleaning cloth would need to be chemically treated cloth in my experience.

I have used lint free micro-fibre cloths in the past on bullion and whilst they do polish a little, they don't achieve a significant result until some type of chemical or abrasive is used.

 

I sure they are, very little, but still some. I look at this way, if 99.9999% of experts can't tell the difference between a MS70 and a MS69 then I'm okay with using these cloths. BTW, they're made by Connoisseurs, great product IMO

 

I favour a good chemical bath ... either ammonia, jewellery cleaner or ultra-sonic cleaner .... only on bullion items.

I've not tried cleaning a proof or uncirculated Perth Mint coin yet ....

 

The blackish on the rag is silver...
Anytime you "clean" a coin you decrease the value... mainly for collector value. So if you have a bullion type you can't hurt the value.

 

Try polishing with a liquid made up of jewellers rouge and a little water.
Use a soft buffing/polishing disk on a high speed drill - look at car panel polishing / buffing for a description.
Look up a DREMEL drill for small areas.
The jewellers rouge is a microscopically fine abrasive powder that can be used to polish glass.
Don't worry about losing silver it will be microgrammes.
I've never tried this on a bar but it does polish up other stuff.

 

The OP wants to clean silver...BARS. Everyone know not to clean coins with numismatic value, but shining up silver bars is...O...K