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How to clean Silver Coins
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<blockquote data-quote="outboard" data-source="post: 108713" data-attributes="member: 3261"><p>My mother used to enamel on copper, to clean the copper she would use a mixture of salt and vinegar this is a particularly aggressive method and takes a very short time to see results and leaves the copper very pink and lacking a patina not sure how it goes with other metals try it on some scrap before using and <strong><u>don't</u></strong> use it on really valuable coins </p><p></p><p>a cheap and nasty alternative to fine clay is cigarette ash, a dampened finger dipped in an ashtray will polish up silver or brass, again very aggressive and not recommended for anything really valuable</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="outboard, post: 108713, member: 3261"] My mother used to enamel on copper, to clean the copper she would use a mixture of salt and vinegar this is a particularly aggressive method and takes a very short time to see results and leaves the copper very pink and lacking a patina not sure how it goes with other metals try it on some scrap before using and [b][u]don't[/u][/b] use it on really valuable coins a cheap and nasty alternative to fine clay is cigarette ash, a dampened finger dipped in an ashtray will polish up silver or brass, again very aggressive and not recommended for anything really valuable [/QUOTE]
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