Cleaning coins (1 Viewer)

[59Loz]

Funsters,

Over the last few months out on my travels in my MoHo I have collected coins from the year of my birth.

My intention is to clean them and mount them in a glass-covered frame and, display them in my home office.

Do you good people know how best to protect them from tarnishing again? My thought is to spray them with a clear lacquer or do you have a better suggestion?

 

[meanders]

If you put them tightly Iunder glass they will not tarnish.

Cheap cola is a good good cleaner.

 

[MichaelT]

Cheap cola is a good good cleaner.

HP sauce is very good too.

 

[Two on Tour]

Likewise, I always used cheap ones coca cola to clean coins, it's the phosphoric acid in cola that removes the tarnish.

 

[PP Bear]

Funsters,

Over the last few months out on my travels in my MoHo I have collected coins from the year of my birth.

My intention is to clean them and mount them in a glass-covered frame and, display them in my home office.

Do you good people know how best to protect them from tarnishing again? My thought is to spray them with a clear lacquer or do you have a better suggestion?

Post them to me to sort out and then I’ll post you back the change

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[Langtoftlad]

'Cleaning' might destroy any "collector" value if they are rare.
Caution

 

[Captain Yoghurtpot]

Cheap cola is a good good cleaner.

Yes. And also good for the loo.
Let it go flat. Then pour into the bowl and let it stand for a bit.
Amazing how it gets the bowl clean.
Not sure it would work on a cassette though.
Oh look, another toilet thread!

 

[Otter Spotter]

Yes. And also good for the loo.
Let it go flat. Then pour into the bowl and let it stand for a bit.
Amazing how it gets the bowl clean.
Not sure it would work on a cassette though.
Oh look, another toilet thread!

Doesn’t it work if you have drunk it then pee .

 

[Odd job]

Yes. And also good for the loo.
Let it go flat. Then pour into the bowl and let it stand for a bit.
Amazing how it gets the bowl clean.
Not sure it would work on a cassette though.
Oh look, another toilet thread!

I use cola and ice cubes to clean the cassette. How's that for thread drift

 

[Spriddler]

'Cleaning' might destroy any "collector" value if they are rare.
Caution

Very true; be especially careful with the Groats.

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[chaser]

There was an old guy around here who drove a lorry for a local dairy when it was in churns , and he kept pigs and had any sour milk to feed them, and he had a sideline in cleaning anything metal by dropping it in the sourmilk and must say it really worked.
All gone now, the old bloke, milk in churns, sour milk and even the local dairy.