does anyone know how to clean average dirty toned round 50's in bulk in a less labour intensive and low cost way?
help would be appreciated.
Cheers
help would be appreciated.
Cheers
cleaning coins in bulk
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House
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I've cleaned over 200 in one go by dumping them into a big ass bowl, adding a bottle of CA and then letting them soak overnight. Drain the bowl and then dump a whole load of bicard on top.
Start mixing as if it were dough (well, it is real money
), grab a bunch and rub them vigorously through your palms and then chuck 'em aside. After a quick rinse, 99% were sparkling and it only took about 10mins or so.
I think someone did actually throw them in the dishwasher but don't remember how that went.
Start mixing as if it were dough (well, it is real money
), grab a bunch and rub them vigorously through your palms and then chuck 'em aside. After a quick rinse, 99% were sparkling and it only took about 10mins or so.I think someone did actually throw them in the dishwasher but don't remember how that went.
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yeah saw this video but didnt want to manually clean hundreds of coins by hand with bicarbs.
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yeah saw this video but didnt want to manually clean hundreds of coins by hand with bicarbs.
hmmm dishwasher seems like the easier option. might give it a shot.
Can't remember if 50s have reeded edges, they are the hardest part to clean but most 50s don't have much circulation so there isn't a massive build up of dirt to remove anyway.
You might want to skip the bicarb bit, it does give them a nice shine but if you just want to remove toning then the Cloudy Ammonia might be enough.
I generally do 10 at a time, after that I get bored and my back aches!
You might want to skip the bicarb bit, it does give them a nice shine but if you just want to remove toning then the Cloudy Ammonia might be enough.
I generally do 10 at a time, after that I get bored and my back aches!
When I have had some really dirty ones I do the following:
1. Get a rectangular take away container.
2. A bit of paper towel on the bottom.
3. Coins laid out flat.
4. Another piece of paper.
5. More coins.
6. Repeat 3 to 5.
7. Fill with Cloudy Ammonia.
8. Leave overnight.
9. Rinse.
1. Get a rectangular take away container.
2. A bit of paper towel on the bottom.
3. Coins laid out flat.
4. Another piece of paper.
5. More coins.
6. Repeat 3 to 5.
7. Fill with Cloudy Ammonia.
8. Leave overnight.
9. Rinse.
sammysilver said:
I normally only layer them one deep, otherwise it is too much effort to clean them. I find if you leave them too long before processing they can go funny colours, I once put some different coins in acetone for a week and they came out wierldy discoloured, tried the same thing with bleach and they all came out black.
I have a vibrating polisher (the type you fill with steel balls and then chuck in the pieces you want polished) and I put some coins in with steel balls and cloudy ammonia. Waited until the liquid went blue and added bi-carb of soda to finish it off. Came back later and it had solidified into a matrix of blue bi carb with steel balls and crusted coins.
Took ages to clean everything up.
To be honest I think soaking them and giving them a once over with Bi carb is the short cut to cleaning them
Pirocco said:
Worse than milk spots, you'll get ice cream spots if you don't eat the ice cream first.
Pirocco
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One of my last purchases were 256 90% junk coins, put about 1/3 at a time in a closed jar with silver dip, waited some hourse then picked them out in small chunks of 4-5 with some plastic grabber, rubbed them abit with a soft sponze, washed them in water.
When jar empty, next chunk, wait again some hours, same story.
Took me about an entire weekend, although in the hours waiting I didnt stare at it, I went shopping etc.
It's WORK. You don't have it with bullion but I just like those various years/countries old coins that once circulated way more than another X times a same bullion coin. Although I like kilo lunars too, but it's sometimes hard to find them in amounts of 5 on the right moment (a low spot).
For ex, if I'd buy silver now, there is only 1 lunar horse kilocoin for sale at the dealer I chosed. I had put it in my cart for a week. It disappeared yesterday and now it reappeared. Just one.
When jar empty, next chunk, wait again some hours, same story.
Took me about an entire weekend, although in the hours waiting I didnt stare at it, I went shopping etc.
It's WORK. You don't have it with bullion but I just like those various years/countries old coins that once circulated way more than another X times a same bullion coin. Although I like kilo lunars too, but it's sometimes hard to find them in amounts of 5 on the right moment (a low spot).
For ex, if I'd buy silver now, there is only 1 lunar horse kilocoin for sale at the dealer I chosed. I had put it in my cart for a week. It disappeared yesterday and now it reappeared. Just one.
Bullion Stacker
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Use cloudy ammonia but try to do them in bulk like House said. I had to clean 100 and it took a long time cleaning them individually with bi carb.
Bullion Stacker
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The ammonia doesn't clean the coins it loosens the dirt and grime.phrenzy said:
The bi carb then cleans the loose dirt.
One doesn't work without the other