Usually if im cleaning a coin in vinegar i soak for 10 minutes, wipe with a microfibre cloth n repeat till im happy as it strips the dirt off layer by layer n the vinegar loosens it up for the cloth to clean off. Like you, never with expensive coins. I really like these videos. 😁
What a transformation with some of coins 😄, I never even thought about denture cleaner, when I find a rusty penny on the ground i usually soak it in lemon juice and baking soda and cleans it up fantastically 👍
I suppose it depends on what you are looking to gain from cleaning your coins. I personally don't like seeing pre-decimal coins lose their age and grime. However, for corrosion I'd probably give the WD40 a go. It seemed to brighten it without altering it too much. Also for a future video, could you try electrolysis? Seems to be a love or hate thing. Great video as usual.
Great video. 👍 I've used most of them over the years 😊 I've always wondered how a sonic jewellery cleaner would work on coins? I don't know how long it takes; the longer the better I suppose. I know the cleaners come with cleaning fluid, but why not try it with others, vinegar, coke etc.
I soaked some of my old pennies in salt and vinegar and some of the coins came out looking shrimp color 😂I don't know 😅if I should use white vinegar and salt or Apple cider vinegar.
I've used Dawn dish liquid in hot water with success. Also on tougher coins I've washed with dawn for starters, rinse then place in white vinegar and baking soda then rub lightly and rinse. Kentucky USA
I mainly collect shillings but also collect copper coins as well. I basically use ordinary washing up liquid. Just put a small blob on each side of the coin and rub between finger and thumb. You can also use a small soft hair paint brush to remove dirt etc. This method only removes dirt and grime, not the patina. So you end up with a clean coin not a shiny one.
Hi. In my opinion for clean jewlery or coins, allways I use toothpaste ''arm and hamner'' and I add extra bicarbonate of soda. Method; in a large glass pour toothpaste and mix that with bicarbonate of soda. Drop your coins in that solution for next haf hour or next couple hours, depend how much you are dispose to work after. If you keep coin longer will be easy work after. So, after couple hours start brushing you coin with a tooth brush medium firm. Rise with plenity of water and dry them. Results are incredible.
I have some Victorian pennies and ha'pennies with ugly green spots of bronze disease. The salt and distilled vinegar with boiled water method looks ideal, as these coins will be rendered safer to store and the design is not ruined too much. Sure, never clean coins - but what use is a coin that will deteriorate when the disease eats its way through in time or even spreads through other coins, as happens with so many joblots? I'm tempted to avoid buying bronze coins unless I can physically see them under a spyglass now. The dental tablets strip the coin a little too much for my taste. Great video here, thank you 😊
What would you say would be the best way to clean coins in bulk? As far as I know whilst very old theres nothing ultra valuable in my old Pennies but there is 200+ of them and they are to be used in an old Slot machine which can get issues from dirty coins, I don't want to deface them of course as they are nice to look at but I want to be certain they will not Jam up my Machine or any others that I may get in future. Thanks in Advance
I have to say, even though some of the products used did clean the coins well, I preferred the way the pennies looked before they were cleaned. I don't clean my pennies. I like the luster on them
An interesting experiment with varying degrees of results but felt they’d all lost their charm along with the years of natural ageing. Enjoyed it nonetheless Great stuff Christopher & BCC 👍🏻
Another great video. Thanks for using my suggestion. I only use it on coins going into my Whitman albums that need the obverse shown to highlight monarchs otherwise I only use isopropyl alcohol to remove finger prints. Stay cool. Kiwi19 🇳🇿
You told us that old pennies are inexpensive. I'm 76 years old and just started collecting coins. Simply because I'm disabled and confined to bed, I needed something to stop me going stir crazy. How much would a good collection of pennies, a collection of old coins and a collection of new coins cost please. I'm in Australia so I understand shipping is involved. Can you help me please?
Love it cracking vid BCC some epic suggestions and brilliant results with the dental tablets 👏 I have plenty of duck tape and wd40 but that's another story 😁 happy days Christopher 👍 🥋
I soak my dirty copper in oxacylic acid for an hour. Then it goes in my vibratory tumbler. Eye popping! I make them into jewelry pins. It’s fun to give away a Victoria penny pin. I’m a Yank but lived in Bristol during the year of conversion to decimal. I loved the penny arcade. You could play for an hour and only lose £1. 😂
My opinion is that copper coins cannot be improved by any form of cleaning - there is no way to return the coin to it's former copper color and so anything else looks off. However, silver is a different story and silver coins with an ugly grey toning can be greatly improved. Anyone disagree?
Being a coin collecter for 50 yrs and dealing with coins ,I could cry do not clean coins , soapy water if covered in mud that's all ,your cleaning value off them 🥴
As a coincollector from the Netherlands, 40+ years of collecting. I do clean my coins and or even polish them. I don't collect luster or patina, I collect coins. Therefor I like to see as much numismatic details as possible. I collect them for myself and not for the most value. All my coins are placed into coinholders glued, no staples. Then I print all the information on stickers and place them on the coinholder. It's a lot of work but I love to do it and then on a rainy Sunday grab an album or 2 and look satisfied at my coins.
He was clear this activity is for low value coins like junk silver. There's no downside, and If you can raise a date and some detail you can actually increase the value of a junk coin. You may find a date or mint mark that makes it rare. You never know until you try.
Coins destroyed if you do any butthe last method the pink stuff seemd to remove all the horrid coin mould and dirt without ruining the age patena, i soak dirty overnight in distilled water then lightly brush them off in morning works well doesnt damage the coins at all
A tip. Put a slice of cheese on the coin and store it in room temperature for a week or two. It happened by mistake on a piece of cutlery of mine and the bright spot never went away even after 20 years of use and machine washing. Nothing I tried my self, but blasting it with dry ice should do the trick as well.
Those cleaned pennies looked horrible! Sacrificing them was an apt description. Bronze and copper coins never look good after cleaning them, though coins with other metals like nickel seem to fare much better. I usually just wipe my coins with a small medical alcohol pad to get the surface dirt and grime off of them and they don't look cleaned when I do that, just not filthy like before.
What is wrong with using Tarn-x? That is a liquid chemical on the market that will brighten coins without using any abrasives, very quick and easy. It works on copper or silver.
I go coins from all over the world nearly every country my dad collected them he went around the world twice i do no how to sell them oldest 1717 then right up to day coins
Tbh I thought all the coins looked better before using the products. 🤷🏻♂The majority of the results have stripped away, not just dirt, but the coins layers, which is why they look pink.
Well well well as I've been an electroplater in my past I've been with so many different chemicals and copper coins are not the easiest bits of metal to clean so do yourself a favour and get some household ammonia and leave it over night and after you have washed the ammonia off you then polish it up with brasso liquid polish with a soft cloth my friend ok.😊
I actually have been doing some experimenting myself and I have a wax wax that does wondrous I haven't tried it on the silver coins I've been using it on Penny se e how it comes out but I looked through my jeweler loop but I need to get my digital microscope to be for sure but the name of the wax they don't make no more but you can still find it m a a s and if you use it use a microfiber cloth and I think you'd be quite surprised if anybody's got it digital microscope and could you do it I would be most appreciated
@@psilocybemusashi not really. Cola is more acidic than soda water because it contains phosphoric acid. Diet cola has no sugar so it would be a less messy much less sticky choice.
That was cringe worthy! For dug coins with no numismatic value, I've used a bowl lined with aluminum foil, baking soda and vinegar. I found this worked very well.
@santaclausnorthpolecanade2340 : Tried this on a ''silver'' coin, a large 10 'New Pence' dated 1968. Ruined it. (Anyway, who says the North Pole is in Canada? It clearly isn't.)
Fun vid! One correction: 1900 was the END of the last century. The new century began in 1901. I know, counting numbers are hard. Just remember the book and movie, 2001. Yes, that is why Mr. Clarke chose that title. Also, funny that the wokies use BCE because no matter what you call it, it is based on the Birth of Christ!
Any person who cleans a coin that they intend to sell is PURE EVIL. Cleaning a coin makes it worth its melt value, or face value. NEVER CLEAN A COIN YOU INTEND TO SELL.
A coin dealer 😂😂😂 why am I not surprised!… so that’s why you kept every single £2 and 50p coins you took from circulation like 1000’s n 1000’s of them so you can sell them online . I knew Christopher collects channel smelt like a rat.
Usually if im cleaning a coin in vinegar i soak for 10 minutes, wipe with a microfibre cloth n repeat till im happy as it strips the dirt off layer by layer n the vinegar loosens it up for the cloth to clean off. Like you, never with expensive coins. I really like these videos. 😁
Agreed! It's interesting to see the results though -CC
What a transformation with some of coins 😄, I never even thought about denture cleaner, when I find a rusty penny on the ground i usually soak it in lemon juice and baking soda and cleans it up fantastically 👍
Oh cool! Thanks for the suggestion 😁👍 -CC
Denture cleaner is fantastic for getting tea stains out of China cups! Also for metal cups & water bottles
Excellent video! I was kept enthralled the entire time. Subscribed of course. Fm Texas, usa
That is amazing outcome from the denture cleaner, worth remembering 👍😊
That was such a transformation! -CC
I suppose it depends on what you are looking to gain from cleaning your coins. I personally don't like seeing pre-decimal coins lose their age and grime. However, for corrosion I'd probably give the WD40 a go. It seemed to brighten it without altering it too much. Also for a future video, could you try electrolysis? Seems to be a love or hate thing. Great video as usual.
Oh definitely some made much more of a difference from others. I will have to look into electrolysis now 🤣🤣🤣 -CC
Great video. 👍
I've used most of them over the years 😊
I've always wondered how a sonic jewellery cleaner would work on coins? I don't know how long it takes; the longer the better I suppose.
I know the cleaners come with cleaning fluid, but why not try it with others, vinegar, coke etc.
Thanks! I will have to see what else we have to clean them then haha -CC
I soaked some of my old pennies in salt and vinegar and some of the coins came out looking shrimp color 😂I don't know 😅if I should use white vinegar and salt or Apple cider vinegar.
If coke will disolve the post of the battery I can see why it would work on pennies❤
The denture cleaner really surprised me.
Another great video 😊
The transformation was amazing! -CC
I've used Dawn dish liquid in hot water with success. Also on tougher coins I've washed with dawn for starters, rinse then place in white vinegar and baking soda then rub lightly and rinse.
Kentucky USA
Ohh Christopher you’ve had me in stitches watching this 😂😂😂😂
Hahaha glad you enjoyed! -CC
What a great video loved all the information of what was happening on that day.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed 😁👍 -CC
I mainly collect shillings but also collect copper coins as well. I basically use ordinary washing up liquid. Just put a small blob on each side of the coin and rub between finger and thumb. You can also use a small soft hair paint brush to remove dirt etc. This method only removes dirt and grime, not the patina. So you end up with a clean coin not a shiny one.
I have loads of shilling and copper
Hi. In my opinion for clean jewlery or coins, allways I use toothpaste ''arm and hamner'' and I add extra bicarbonate of soda. Method; in a large glass pour toothpaste and mix that with bicarbonate of soda. Drop your coins in that solution for next haf hour or next couple hours, depend how much you are dispose to work after. If you keep coin longer will be easy work after. So, after couple hours start brushing you coin with a tooth brush medium firm. Rise with plenity of water and dry them. Results are incredible.
I have some Victorian pennies and ha'pennies with ugly green spots of bronze disease. The salt and distilled vinegar with boiled water method looks ideal, as these coins will be rendered safer to store and the design is not ruined too much. Sure, never clean coins - but what use is a coin that will deteriorate when the disease eats its way through in time or even spreads through other coins, as happens with so many joblots? I'm tempted to avoid buying bronze coins unless I can physically see them under a spyglass now. The dental tablets strip the coin a little too much for my taste.
Great video here, thank you 😊
What would you say would be the best way to clean coins in bulk? As far as I know whilst very old theres nothing ultra valuable in my old Pennies but there is 200+ of them and they are to be used in an old Slot machine which can get issues from dirty coins, I don't want to deface them of course as they are nice to look at but I want to be certain they will not Jam up my Machine or any others that I may get in future.
Thanks in Advance
I have to say, even though some of the products used did clean the coins well, I preferred the way the pennies looked before they were cleaned. I don't clean my pennies. I like the luster on them
Agreed! The toning is the history of the coins -CC
Yes, but what about coins other than bronze/copper?
Spectacular job sir!
An interesting experiment with varying degrees of results but felt they’d all lost their charm along with the years of natural ageing.
Enjoyed it nonetheless
Great stuff Christopher & BCC 👍🏻
Oh definitely this is why we don't recommend that you do it to your special coins but still fun to see the transformation -CC
It's important to monitor periodically so that you don't over clean, over cleaning is the real crime in trying to improve appearances.
Great deadpan send-up on coin cleaning.😂🤣😂🤣
i dont collect coins or anything but if i happen to find any dirty or old coins i will obsessively clean them until they are shiny again
I'm no coin collector but agitation of the liquid is likely key. Probably why Sterident worked so well.
Another great video. Thanks for using my suggestion. I only use it on coins going into my Whitman albums that need the obverse shown to highlight monarchs otherwise I only use isopropyl alcohol to remove finger prints. Stay cool. Kiwi19 🇳🇿
Thank you for the suggestion! -CC
9kt testing acid is best for copper. It brings them up like new. You can't leave it too long though or there'd be nothing left. :D
🤣🤣🤣 Disappearing coins sound like a fun video -CC
You told us that old pennies are inexpensive. I'm 76 years old and just started collecting coins. Simply because I'm disabled and confined to bed, I needed something to stop me going stir crazy. How much would a good collection of pennies, a collection of old coins and a collection of new coins cost please. I'm in Australia so I understand shipping is involved. Can you help me please?
Love it cracking vid BCC some epic suggestions and brilliant results with the dental tablets 👏 I have plenty of duck tape and wd40 but that's another story 😁 happy days Christopher 👍 🥋
Hahahaha! I'm sure you have in that shed of yours 🤣 -CC
Nice Video Christopher 😀👍
Thank you! -CC
I really enjoyed seeing this..
Some nice transitions keep doing these videos,
Thanks! -CC
Break fluid cleaner or carb cleaner. Also wood stain and you will have a 11 out of 10
I soak my dirty copper in oxacylic acid for an hour. Then it goes in my vibratory tumbler. Eye popping! I make them into jewelry pins. It’s fun to give away a Victoria penny pin. I’m a Yank but lived in Bristol during the year of conversion to decimal. I loved the penny arcade. You could play for an hour and only lose £1. 😂
My opinion is that copper coins cannot be improved by any form of cleaning - there is no way to return the coin to it's former copper color and so anything else looks off. However, silver is a different story and silver coins with an ugly grey toning can be greatly improved. Anyone disagree?
I have some old wheat pennies. 1906 old...sadly they were stored where it flooded and now have some moldy looking stuff. Should i try and clean?
touch choice - "not" cleaning them, the coins will get RUINED ..... (on the other hand) cleaning them can save them from a horrible fate .....
The salt, vinegar, and hot water was the most naturally looking result. The pink stuff is certainly a close second
Do you buy old coins?
Being a coin collecter for 50 yrs and dealing with coins ,I could cry do not clean coins , soapy water if covered in mud that's all ,your cleaning value off them 🥴
Absolutely agree with you there 👍 -CC
As a coincollector from the Netherlands, 40+ years of collecting. I do clean my coins and or even polish them. I don't collect luster or patina, I collect coins. Therefor I like to see as much numismatic details as possible. I collect them for myself and not for the most value. All my coins are placed into coinholders glued, no staples. Then I print all the information on stickers and place them on the coinholder. It's a lot of work but I love to do it and then on a rainy Sunday grab an album or 2 and look satisfied at my coins.
@@dutchcowboy3665 you know your destroying them ,
@@shauncorless8965 So what?
He was clear this activity is for low value coins like junk silver. There's no downside, and If you can raise a date and some detail you can actually increase the value of a junk coin. You may find a date or mint mark that makes it rare. You never know until you try.
Bleach would probably work well as it's made to clean. Also try using about 30% dish soap and 70% warm water.
My Eid Mar coin is covered in cow dung, you think the value will be worse if I clean the dung off of it?
Coins destroyed if you do any butthe last method the pink stuff seemd to remove all the horrid coin mould and dirt without ruining the age patena, i soak dirty overnight in distilled water then lightly brush them off in morning works well doesnt damage the coins at all
Superb research matey
A tip. Put a slice of cheese on the coin and store it in room temperature for a week or two. It happened by mistake on a piece of cutlery of mine and the bright spot never went away even after 20 years of use and machine washing. Nothing I tried my self, but blasting it with dry ice should do the trick as well.
Those cleaned pennies looked horrible! Sacrificing them was an apt description. Bronze and copper coins never look good after cleaning them, though coins with other metals like nickel seem to fare much better. I usually just wipe my coins with a small medical alcohol pad to get the surface dirt and grime off of them and they don't look cleaned when I do that, just not filthy like before.
🤣🤣🤣 Yes we defiantly don't recommend doing this. Hopefully the video serves as a warning. -CC
Thank you for the presentation
What is wrong with using Tarn-x? That is a liquid chemical on the market that will brighten coins without using any abrasives, very quick and easy. It works on copper or silver.
A bit of interesting fun. 👍
Thanks! -CC
Thank you. Good video 🎉
The last coin we will sacrifice. Hahaha
I found one penny if year 2000 or 2006, i want to clean up clearly sir.
I go coins from all over the world nearly every country my dad collected them he went around the world twice i do no how to sell them oldest 1717 then right up to day coins
Don't clean coins proceeds to clean coins
Why didnt you try brake fluid?? Thanks for the video
An interesting suggestion 🤔 -CC
Lemon juice is a cleaner that should be used only for short times.
Does the Coke have sugar or high fructose corn syrup?
Tbh I thought all the coins looked better before using the products. 🤷🏻♂The majority of the results have stripped away, not just dirt, but the coins layers, which is why they look pink.
Agreed! The toning is part of the history and thats why we recommend against doing it haha! Still fun to see the transformation though -CC
Cleaning more coins 😱 👍
🤣🤣🤣 Apologies -CC
Brasso and a soft soft cloth job done
yeah, the shine of the coin disappeared after using salt and vinegar. brasso brought it back!
Very interesting video, CC but I’ll stick to the mucky coins thanks.
Yes that is our advise 🤣 -CC
A little Trivia - WD-40 was so called as WD = Water Displacement - and 40 because it took them 40 attempts to perfect the formula....!
isnt it true that you destroy some of the value for coin collectors by cleaning them?
I'd give em a good old going over with steel wool, sandpaper, abrasive cream cleaner and hydrochloric acid! That'd fix them.
Brutal! 🤣🤣🤣 -CC
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cleaning coins is a big no no as to selling them on patina is what retains its age appearance over cleaning halves the value
Well well well as I've been an electroplater in my past I've been with so many different chemicals and copper coins are not the easiest bits of metal to clean so do yourself a favour and get some household ammonia and leave it over night and after you have washed the ammonia off you then polish it up with brasso liquid polish with a soft cloth my friend ok.😊
Olive oil or extra-virgin olive oil
I actually have been doing some experimenting myself and I have a wax wax that does wondrous I haven't tried it on the silver coins I've been using it on Penny se e how it comes out but I looked through my jeweler loop but I need to get my digital microscope to be for sure but the name of the wax they don't make no more but you can still find it m a a s and if you use it use a microfiber cloth and I think you'd be quite surprised if anybody's got it digital microscope and could you do it I would be most appreciated
Soaking coins in condiments is redundant because they're vinegar based. Just use vinegar.
and using cola instead of soda water is just messy
@@psilocybemusashi not really. Cola is more acidic than soda water because it contains phosphoric acid. Diet cola has no sugar so it would be a less messy much less sticky choice.
Honey!!!
I love your voice ❤️
That was cringe worthy! For dug coins with no numismatic value, I've used a bowl lined with aluminum foil, baking soda and vinegar. I found this worked very well.
I'm not sure you could persuade me to got metal detecting at the North Pole Santa 🤣🤣🤣 -CC
@santaclausnorthpolecanade2340 : Tried this on a ''silver'' coin, a large 10 'New Pence' dated 1968. Ruined it.
(Anyway, who says the North Pole is in Canada? It clearly isn't.)
Actually forget about this suggestion. Steradent did come up well👌👍
Thanks for the suggestion though! -CC
Fun vid! One correction: 1900 was the END of the last century. The new century began in 1901. I know, counting numbers are hard. Just remember the book and movie, 2001. Yes, that is why Mr. Clarke chose that title. Also, funny that the wokies use BCE because no matter what you call it, it is based on the Birth of Christ!
how about a sonic cleaner? has anybody tried that?
brown sauce needs a week - then it is super shiney
how to clean a coin, but don't clean them???????
Any person who cleans a coin that they intend to sell is PURE EVIL. Cleaning a coin makes it worth its melt value, or face value.
NEVER CLEAN A COIN YOU INTEND TO SELL.
Vinegar and Natron is the best.
Man hearing him swallow in between speaking is like nails on a chalkboard
Brillo or Borax
Use white vinger and iodized sea salt
Can't tell if this coin is a penny or a dime
What about a gentleman in another video suggesting acetone?
It also works just make sure your using 100% pure acetone not the nail polish remover
A coin dealer 😂😂😂 why am I not surprised!… so that’s why you kept every single £2 and 50p coins you took from circulation like 1000’s n 1000’s of them so you can sell them online .
I knew Christopher collects channel smelt like a rat.
Made it worst cleaning these old penny's should leave them the way they are
I HAVE A PENNY COINS COULD I SALE THOSE
I have 1971 1981
You can never get the original color and shine back.
Hydrogen Peroxide?
OKAY!!!
boiling water and a good quality dishwasher tablet
Oh Perhaps one we will try in the future 👍 -CC
I was wondering about this!
Ty!
You would not clean those coins. Try some real metal detecting coins. And it may be different for different alloys.
I cringe when I see Metal detectorists dig up a valuable coin and begin to rub off the dirt and sand between their thumb and fingers.
I can't imagine the WD-40 fumes won you many points 😂
🤣🤣🤣 -CC
Use a pencil rubber
coins have to be "cleaned" anyway - if you don't, mother nature comes into play !! ... and she's not nice
NEVER CLEAN A COIN.
oh hell no.
Needless to say: People, never EVER do this to your coins.
Ultimately, the best of all cleanings is a toothbrush and toothpaste. I swear, the coin will be like new.
Comet cleanser rub into coin with finger or thumb
That's scratch
flux and a blowtorch
They look better naturally aged.... like women. 😮