how to clean copper coins

cleaning metal detected coins

[FixNewsPlease]

There's nothing like abrasion to restore a coin! lol

[upnorthadventureswithccc]

Everybody has their own way ! I find it interesting to see all the different ways and all the out comes. Yous look pretty good without much effort :-)

[treasuretom]

Interesting but Couldn't you get lead poisoning by rubbing the lead into your fingers?

[pinpointaccuracy]

Pretty neat. I’ve dug my coppers our of clay along the river. They come out like bright copper, but are really wore from the clay.

[DoylesDigs]

Good way to bring out the detail! Never thought of that! very nice Queen Victoria! I have a 1916 large cent as well! Nice largies you got there (: good luck out there

[decoman]

it says, how to clean copper coins ...im still waiting to find out as all this video does is cover coin with pencil lead simply to show up detail ...DOES NOT CLEAN COIN AT ALL ....

[roccosuperhuman]

Hi! you are very smart Sir.. No chemical or something . I found yesterday lot of copper old coins in the ditch here is London, and looking for the way to clean them up to see something ;-) Last time I use Coke and vinegar and totally most damage them;-( No more mistakes . I ll try do it this way now ;-) The problem is, on some you cannot see much at all.. I will try ! Thanks for the tip.

[raynac]

I swore he was going to use the eraser on the pencil. I mean if you want to clean it those things work suprisingly well. its an abrasive so it wont leave the coin untouched but it works better than alot of the acid combos people will suggest

[wallyb]

I've heard ketchup can clean copper coins.

[MrTruth-khnr]

Can this method work on all coppers coins that’s a pretty worn but you can see a small silhouette and what did bring out things that we couldn’t see?
Not that we get a lot of coppers here in Louisiana I guess we’re more prone with the Spanish silver

[ivarcanky]

Is this video about how to clean the coins, or how to make them even more dirty?

[Mark-TBH]

I will try this on some of my wheaties but I am not sure for my older coppers. I'm concerned the graphite would wear away the details on the older ccoppers. Just my viewpoint.

[nataliechadwick]

Thanks for the advice on cleaning copper

[StonerGBUK]

As you can clearly see, with a blurred focus. Yeah really Popped!

[moralezz]

Dont do it with rare coins, You'll kill them.

[westrokker]

Word to the wise….be careful doing this . I did it to a 1837 large cent and now you can’t see the date!!

[kevykevTPA]

I realize this is an older video, but I suspect if you had any truly valuable coins and did this prior to submitting them for grading, they'd come back as cleaned/details, which would utterly destroy whatever value they had. If it's just worth $2 even in great condition, no harm no foul, but had you done this to a coin with a hypothetical value of $20, 000, you would have turned it into a $2 coin. At least I'm speculating, I'd love to be proven wrong. I don't really collect copper, except in sealed mint sets (regular and proof), though I'm not even buying most of those anymore and haven't for some time.

Have you, the OP, or anyone for that matter, sent coins "cleaned" in this manner in for grading and authentication?

And not one person figured that out at 3:24 he switches the coin

[tejalpartha.s]

Use tamarind and salt. It works. I've tried.

[BrianClunie]

I’m pretty sure I’ve subscribed to you before, I d know why it kicked me off. Anyway, great information, I just subscribed!