Should You Clean Your Coins? Coin Restoration Versus Coin Cleaning Facts

have you ever wondered if you should clean your coins or have you ever wondered how to clean your coins well this video we're going to address those two questions and a few others that people have on the subject of cleaning coins my name is Daniel and this is coin help you thanks for watching my video please like share comment and subscribe please click the bell beside the subscribe button so that you receive new notifications when I release a video so should you clean your coins I see this question all over the internet and it is a hot topic of debate a lot of confusion involved one it actually means to clean a coin most people are going to tell you not to clean your coins but some are going to tell you you can use this or that to remove something from your coin surface so the debate is it's about cleaning a coin so much as what it means to clean a coin some believe any time you wipe or remove anything like a toning or debris off a coin than it is cleaning but others claim it must be harsh and it should have clean lines before it is considered a clean coin the last statement is mostly true but a coin doesn't have to have clean lines to be clean often too much acid in a dip mix can strip away the natural strucked layer of a coin surface it wouldn't impart any lines on the coin but it actually micro itched the surface and erode away causing a chemical reaction to remove that natural layer you the statement above removing anything from a coin as cleaning is technically true since that is the definition of cleaning anything but coins are different we're not talking about washing our hands or cleaning our cars so the terminology must be put in perspective coins can attain unsightly toning like PVC glue adhesive or other gunk from being handled and poor storage methods the top grading services PCGS and NGC and annex offer restoration for coins like this for a fee but only rare coins a condition grade would be worth paying for this surface sometimes you'll send a coin off to have it restored and the fees are higher than the coin is worth this can happen you typically are charged 3% of whatever the coins value is determined after it is restored if it can be restored now condition grade is a coin that is fairly common but rare in higher grades that say like an 1884 s au Morgan dollar enough for an 83 s Morgan dollar enough there are several other coins some some of your quarters in like the 1932 d NS and the higher grades they're worth a lot more they are key dates but they're not worth restoring in the lower grades now so based on this information is safe to say that cleaning a coin is not just removing unsightly materials or toning from the surface of a coin not when you consider the reach direction methods used not to really clean a coin to hurt the coins value you must somehow scratch strip or use an abrasive or something as siddik to remove the natural striking layer on a coin so in other words you're actually removing the layer that was imparted by the dice that's what it means to really clean a coin that damages a coin now this is the way I want to define it for this video type 1 cleaning this is more of a restoration of a coin that has some type of residue unsightly toning or other gunk on the surface of the coin sometimes coins had tape on them and they were taped to keep them in albums and if it's a rare key date like an 89 CC and it looks a you you might want to have that coin restored so this method is acceptable for most coins have done properly and carefully it should never be used on a coin that grades less than a u58 coin should never be rubbed during this process more on that later type 2 cleaning this is the nono cleaning this is when someone uses a wire brush or abrasive or even an acid to whiz or remove the natural striking layer off the surface of the cool this is the type of cleaning that damages the coin forever and greatly reduces the value of the coin you should never clean coins like this this method also includes coin doctoring as in polishing the fields or surface of a coin with a polishing compound or some type of rotary tool you'll see that on eBay they'll make dimples and proof like coins by polishing them up and then itching the devices so that it looks like it's naturally struck that way you know I hope this clears up a little bit of the differences there is when it comes to cleaned and what is really cleaned and when it comes to clean comes the coins so let's go over more facts on type 1 cleaning that I've label as restoring a coin it's if the experts can remove certain things from the surface of coin then it stands to reason that so can a collector there's only so many substances on the planet that can remove things like a he Jie PVC residue or toning on certain alloys and all are available to everyone so what if you have some common coin x' that have of the Gunkel name or the toning is splotchy and ugly well it depends the reason the coin looks like it's due to a previous cleaning or is the coin going to look cleaned if you try to remove anything on the surface I mean one of the things about coins is that they have been cleaned in the past and harshly cleaned and if you have a coin that's REIT owned from being cleaned in the past and some of the residue from the dip or whatever is left on the coin you may not recognize it as being previously cleaned so all naturally when you dip it it's gonna look cleaned it's gonna look bad it'll look worse and there's some dark dark tone coins and none naturally looking tone coins have probably been cleaned in the past they shouldn't be touched now my suggestion is to talk to a dealer or someone who has used certain substances to remove things off coins there's commercially available products that I have safely used myself own coin so yes I have restored coins that had some issues as far as issues that wouldn't go down to the striking layer and we're talking about that original layer here anything that's above that layer but to name a few of them you have easiest MSM you can buy those almost any dealership they'll sell these to you acetones one that people talk about a lot they're soap and water people use olive oil they're just toothpaste I've heard it all but you've got to be careful because even toothpaste has you know minor bits of some type of liniment MANET some of them do some of them you got to watch the ingredients you don't want to put something on a coin that's going to scratch that natural striking layer so we're talking about you know being very careful here you know and I can tell you this I have witnessed firsthand a PCGS dealer and this dealer is listed in a red book cut coins out of a Proof Set dip them in easiest run him underwater and then blow drying with a compressor air compressor I saw this with my own eyes and they were sent to PCGS and his coins come back problem-free and you know proof sets do have a film they can leave a film or residue on a coin or unsightly toning you know the the surface of a proof can be scratched real easy I mean you can scratch it by just rubbing against it so you you got a pat dry or blow-dry this you definitely don't want to do this with anything that's gonna rub that coin so this is something that I have experienced and this is how some experienced numismatist restore their coins okay now I'm going to offer a disclaimer if you do this to your coin and run it it is not my fault I'm not telling you to do this to your coin okay I'm not telling you to do this to your coin I'm only informing you on what I have observed firsthand in restoring coins and the process can vary from person to person so I'm not saying this is how everybody does it I'm not saying you have to do it this way or you should okay this is just one of the many processes I've witnessed or took part in you know now one thing about it is this is not for copper coins okay I don't mess with copper coins myself I don't clean them if I have a copper coin that is a rare ki day and it needs to be cleaned or restored it's going to NCS it's going to PCGS it's going to there it's gonna be restore it by then okay because I see too many most rare coins it seems like in the copper they have some type of issue poor plant suits to begin with so therefore you're gonna have pitting you're gonna have issues with them and I'm just not going to mess with them I'm not gonna take a 1909 SV DB and use this method on it you know that'd be insane I just wouldn't do it if it's silver I can you can do that it's a little more Hardy it seems like coppers just always got a problem with a copper we can remove it it'll turn pink if you dip it in man that 70 if you dip it in easiest you know a lot of people say you can use that sometime that I know that I know it'll happen I can demonstrate it'll turn pink and you don't want that to happen the other thing is is that we're not talking about ancient coins here we're not talk about shipwreck coins we know all those coins probably already have a problem and they are cleaned and it's it's acceptable in that field to clean those coins and a part of numismatics you know so like I said hopefully this kind of cleared up what's clean and what's not clean and just a recap a little bit here the cleaning that we're talking about with these coins is anything that removes the natural striking layer if you're removing the natural striking layer on a coin then it's damaged and it is most certainly cleaned okay but let's not get caught up and cleaned as underling everything that you put in clean is under an umbrella of everything you do to a coin is cleaning it okay I think that's where people are getting hung up it's that's not what it's about so anyways thank you for watching my video and I hope you last completely through the whole thing and I hope you liked it I hope you've got a comment if you disagree that's fine I don't mind if you agree with me or you have a question please comment please let me know so share it let 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Length: 10min 50sec (650 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 25 2019