I have a silver coin I carry for good luck. It got tarnished really bad. I lined a bowl with aluminum foil. I put the silver coin in. Then I covered the coin in baking soda. Finally, I poured very hot water in the bowl. The whole thing fizzed up alot. When the reaction stopped, I pulled out the very warm coin and it was shiny and clean with zero scrubbing. Aluminum foil Baking soda. Silver Very hot water. Subscribed.
Don’t make the mistake and clean any old coins. Leave the dirt and the patina alone. You could lose half its value by wanting to make it Shine. If you wanna shine your bars, go right ahead . Buff a way. (cleaning dimes is fairly harmless unless it is a key date mercury and you don’t know!)
I definitely think you did not soak your coins or bar long enough. I am sure you can get it looking a lot better. I would use a soft toothbrush on the Mercury if you want to get that clean. I have cleaned coins by dropping them in boiling water... no chemicals, only water and I have also used a soft toothbrush on coins. Why use the tweezers just put the whole thing into the solution?
I have a silver coin I carry for good luck. It got tarnished really bad. I lined a bowl with aluminum foil. I put the silver coin in. Then I covered the coin in baking soda. Finally, I poured very hot water in the bowl. The whole thing fizzed up alot. When the reaction stopped, I pulled out the very warm coin and it was shiny and clean with zero scrubbing.
Aluminum foil
Baking soda.
Silver
Very hot water.
Subscribed.
I've seen some people do it that way! I just wanted to test this product and see the results.
learned some stuff, great video!
Clean Shiny silver looks better than dirt, oxidation or exposure to sulfur.
I didn't know the Maple would shine so bright 😂
Use the basket next time. So your tweezers dont prevent from the cleaning
I did on my recent Silver cleaning video... learned my lesson ARGH!
Don’t make the mistake and clean any old coins. Leave the dirt and the patina alone. You could lose half its value by wanting to make it Shine.
If you wanna shine your bars, go right ahead . Buff a way.
(cleaning dimes is fairly harmless unless it is a key date mercury and you don’t know!)
These are just junk silver coins... only value is the metal itself. I agree no one should clean a coin with collectible value.
I definitely think you did not soak your coins or bar long enough. I am sure you can get it looking a lot better. I would use a soft toothbrush on the Mercury if you want to get that clean. I have cleaned coins by dropping them in boiling water... no chemicals, only water and I have also used a soft toothbrush on coins. Why use the tweezers just put the whole thing into the solution?
I tried both ways and concluded the tweezers were not the better choice.
That's where your tweezers was holding it on the Merck dime
That's why I dipped it again to check.
I don’t clean old silver
As long as it's not grimy brown like the last coin.