MUST WATCH Cleaning 1800s Indians Copper Coins Brass Using Hydrochloric Acid Metal Detecting Relics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2022
- Went back in time with a good friend, he reminded me about science class when we cleaned copper coins in home made Hydrochloric Acid. Part 2 shows how to polish.
I tried this method and let me tell you it works great, THANKS FOR THIS.
no problem.
Cool video those Indians cleaned up nice and neatly
Thanks friend, love the copper luster.
Yes, this works great and now can sell my coins for more, I knew there had to be a way to clean these with out damaging them. Thanks
Glad I can help, one day I'll be doing the same.
Very useful information thanks
No problem friend.
Yes, very good and EZ.
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Thx for the heads up 👍💯
no problem friend.
I cleaned a 1903 Indian head; it took on that golden hue you speak. I recently fund an 1889 and after I cleaned the decades of crud off it, it came out a beautiful green. I am torn as to whether to clean the green off it.
I keep green to show people how they will look when coming out the ground after 100 years and clean the rest.
That a great find, but yes please keep the green patina, if you remove it you will have a copper slug, all the details after all those years is in the green patina.
I was using vinegar and salt mixture when I was young kid around 12....as i got older never liked cleaned coins....I like the natural the best.
Now-a-days when i absolutely have to clean coppers and dress them up for a little better value....i do clean them with straight olive oil and maybe baking soda (rub with my fingers) on the real bad ones to smooth them out....but i stop long before i'm down to the bare copper...I have to keep some of the natural patina and oils on them. Bare copper cleaned coins are unloved by numismatic people...but you can reverse things by adding oils to them...from your nose is best and leave them outside (in direct sun and rain) bake them on each side for 1 week...turning them....and adding your nose and finger oils to them. You actually can bring back the nice uniform patina on those cleaned coins in a about a year...well enough that you can fool even the most seasoned numismatic eye.
I had people ask me how I cleaned a few of my coins, some like there coins dirty and some want to have them clean, I don't really care as I'm not a coin collector nor will I sell my finds, but I do like to see the find details on the coins so I rather have them clean and this method of cleaning I like the best.
I love the green on the Indians I just leave them but I had no idea they looked like that after cleaning
I was surprised also.
I've been selling my old coins from metal detecting for years, I never cleaned them and didn't get much for them. I did clean a few to see if it was true you make more with cleaned coins, and yes your right making double the money or more now, cool trick.
Thanks friend.
Good video :)
Thanks friend.
Yes I learned of this a long time ago but I must say be careful you can ruin your coins in seconds it works great on any eroded metal even iron I ruined a $10 thousand dollar token doing this I simply had to go pee so bad I couldn’t take it I thought what s a few minutes well let me tell you owe it cleaned very well so we’ll all the writing was completely gone I am still sick to this day it was so rare I only seen one other year s ago on heritage auction site and you know they don’t sell junk lol unfortunately I wasn’t a member to see what was the final bid but I am in the thousands I I remember it was 200 years old a celebration of Cleveland Ohio I guess to this day sometime in July they have a huge gathering
If you do it the way I have it in the video youll be fine, just use the bathroom before doing.
Wow, some trolls in the comments geesh. Its not even their coins lol. I look at it this way. Im not concerned if I devalue a 1 cent coin that is worth $1 now. I have cleaned a few of mine and probably will try this too. I found what I thought was a largie on time, Then I decided to clean it and found out it was a 1800s Russian 2 Kopek. They are your coins, Do as you wish with them :)
LOL, most of them are lowball coin dealers. I have a 1846 large cent that I dug up a couple years ago, worth about $15 to $20 as it sits, I'll clean it in a video the same way and I bet you it would sell for $50 to $60. Coin dealers don't want you to know this and the noobs are just repeating what they where taught from the coin dealers. just go on eBay and look at cleaned coins Vs dirty coins, clean coins sell for more. One guy got so mad I posted this video he call me a putz lol I love it. Hand me laughing all night. good stuff. glad you like.
@@MetalDetectingNYbet you it won't to anyone that knows what their doing as far as coin collecting .
as long as you limit your cleaning to bent or damaged stuff you dig up. There are a number of scarcer dates in most coin series that are worth serious money, and any kind of cleaning will destroy the value. In the case of Indian cents, the 1877 is worth hundreds of dollars even in worn condition. The 1908 and 1909 are worth some good money too.
From my experience, If you clean the coin without scratching or causing damage, the value of the coin goes up. forget coin dealers and them making money off the seller, Put a clean coin on eBay vs a dirty coin you make more money on the clean coin, especially if you clean it right. so if you pull up an 1877 that's black and you clean it up like in my video, you'll do very very good selling that. Many coin dealer hate this video as it will take money out there pockets because its real ez to clean these. I tell people to test with a copper penny from the 1960s 70s and see what happens, doesnt damage the penny at all, just takes years and years of tarnish off.
Ya I bet you're making a killing...( sarcasm)
Bro it's okay to admit you have no clue what you're talking about
Indian head pennies were in circulation in the fifties..along with steel pennies.
there both still in circulation, not sure what you mean.
@@MetalDetectingNY I mean they were used to buy things...that's what In circulation means!!!
@@MetalDetectingNY that would be "they are" not there!!!!! Sorry if English is your second language...I suppose you could be using voice printing...I'm an English teacher....sorry!
@@vincentconti-jb3hd yes they are coins to buy things.
@@MetalDetectingNYwhat are you talking about!? Do you get them in change at a grocery store ??;; Don't you understand what I'm saying???! They were worth one cent! No premium!!;; In circulation!!!;
like every other penny !;;;;; Get it;;!!!
Why is he just letting the water dribble. To make everyone who watches have to pee?
lol, I understand why he did this, not to touch his handle with the acid.
sorry I had to run so I didn't get acid all over the place.
if you grade coins tho idk could kill the value
nope, you need to stop thinking you need to sell to coin dealers and waste money on grading coins, sell them on ebay and let them fight for it, youll make more money and wont get low balled selling them to a dealer.
@@MetalDetectingNYah... between the fees make it so you don't make crap on eBay and also what year suggesting sounds like you're just hoping for some novice who doesn't know any better to purchase it and that seems kind of shady . Bottom line to any real collector you're killing the value of these coins clean them if you're just going to keep them for yourself and you like them that way. Don't clean them thinking you're going to fool anybody or somehow increase the prophet
Is your faucet leaking? Dude turn the freaking water off it’s making me crazy
have to have it run, working with Acid, if i got that in my eye I need to wash out fast.
It does work great but you better not let it soak for to long lol I am to scared now I do it the hard way with a hundred tooth pick s lol
It works great, just need to have the right mixture like I have in the video and you clean the worst looking coins like mine to new again.
I guess if you've dug it up and it is not worth anything this would work to get the gunk off. But check the year first for rare dates. If you have a better date do not do this as it will lower value. Old circulated condition copper should not look clean. If you have a bright blonde copper look you've gone way too far.
nope, will increase the vaule if you clean them, it does uch a good job know one can tell, try it yourself with a copper penny and you'll see.
As a numismatist, you ruined any value those coins had.
You’re absolutely wrong, if you're selling to a middle man, yes, but if you're selling them on ebay you'll make wayyyy more money.
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I wouldn't recommend cleaning any old coin that has a value to it!
Its up to you, If you dont trust yourself in cleaning them, send them to a pro, I clean mine and not even a pro can tell.
@@MetalDetectingNYand how many professionals have you had look at them to make such a claim?
@@Tim99-lg7kn I don't think it matters, no complaints from Ebay buyers. He takes very sharp and close pictures and can see every scratch and imperfections in the coins he sells. Look at it this way, if you saw 2 Indians dated 1899 both found by of metal detecting but you didn’t know about that, you just see 2 Indians 1 is black and dirty for $1 and the other Indian was clean, like wow clean and was selling for $2. Most will spend the extra and get the clean coin. Just look on ebay, see what a dirty coin sells for and a clean coin, clean sells for more. Another thing to think about is who cares who you sell them to as long as the buyer is happy and you make money point blank.
Lemon juice,from an actual lemon.
To weak and take to long.
If you never want to sell them I guess have at it but you are destroying there value.
Your absolute wrong; look on eBay, dirty coins vs clean coins, clean coins sell for more. Most coin dealers want dirty coins so they can low ball a seller then clean and sell the coin/s for more. That old saying never clean your coins is wrong, just make sure you know what your doing before you clean them.
It does work great but you better only let it soy for only a few seconds I won’t do it again I will take the long way a tooth pick and a very light Dremel to it I mean light and very slow but only if the coin is really really black I also ruined a few rare Indian head penny s not this method but with peroxide live and learn lol
no water shortage in your world.fix your sink
I have a well that is 4 foot round 60 feet deep filled 3/4 way on a spring. I needed to run the water to swash my hands friend.
@@MetalDetectingNY dose not make for good video that's all
@@user-gh9zl6yg6h well explain how you would clean your hands with acid without running water, let me hear your way of doing it? I don't use public water and have a well with endless water.
Wow you're all a bunch of novices and rather ill informed for the record most of the time if you try to sell coins to someone that is an avid collector they'll know you clean them and it actually loses value. And you never ever ever ever scrub a coin with anything.... And yes you can clean Old copper Indian Head pennies but like I said it loses value because it's been cleaned Unless it's done by an actual professional grading service
PS all the micro scratching you're putting on those when an actual have it collector looks at them you will lose money because you have clean them not only clean them but you have violated them😂😂😂
Sounds good but one of the guys in my group sells every coin he gets and has me clean them after our hunts. He gets top $$$ on everything he sells, the secret is to hand polish after you are done, not too much as you don't want it to look like a mirror but just a little and will look great you'll would never know it was in the ground for 100 to 200 plus years. lucky copper, brass, silver and gold is soft and polishes up real nice, let me drop this mic now. So stop being a sucker and learn to clean up them old coins like the people you buy from and save some money, have a great day, lol.
@@MetalDetectingNY Sorry but your wrong, any coin collector from beginner to advance will never buy your coins, your buddy must be lying through his teeth to sell any of those harshly cleaned coins, im sure to non collectors, the key to really getting top dollar is to keep the patina on, but remove all the dirt. This isnt my first rodeo in coin conservation, ive cleaned, sold, and graded a few in my time, and a polished coin will always look polished even if its not a mirror shine, every coin collector will know, and yes Ive had to harshly clean a couple, in order to save them from degradation AKA bronze disease, but I tell all my buyers that it has been conserved "cleaned" and they dont mind paying a couple dollars less, because they were told the truth and it fits for their needs.
any cleaning of this nature will really deter any coin collectors or coin store owners from buying those indians......
Yes understand that on cleaning...but in this case e-bay people will gobble them up at a few dollars each....they love the cleaned copper Indians and Lincolns. Also, you can reverse the process and add oils and bake them in the sun turning them to get the patina back on them. I've cleaned coins (i had too) to fetch a better price. And I've cleaned coins so safely and then re-patina-ed them so well that seasoned numismatic people could not tell.
Peace and Morgan dollars uncleaned got me $15.00 each ...but if i dipped them in silver cleaner solution for 30 seconds and washed them gently...i was getting $19 to $22. So Yeah...who wouldn't want to clean some coins. I think part of the reason coin collectors tell people NOT to clean coins is so they can buy yours cheap and do it themselves (safely) and make more money instantly.
exactly
I'm not a coin collector nor will I sell any of these coins, But if I did I would never sell to a 1 collector, I put them on eBay to get top dollar and as them being cleaned would bring more money for sure.
@@LarsonFamilyFarm-LLC lol....be assured that THAT is not the reason.
perhaps prettying up the low end copper stuff works for the lay public but any mid grade or high value coin should only be "professionally" cleaned so when the coin is examined and graded by a certified rating service, it is not rejected upon that basis(as happens quite frequently//or the coin may look VF+ but because it was altered, they will only certify F)
.....and by the time you pay the hideously high ebay//paypal fees, the bump you might get from making these pennies shiny is primarily mitigated
@@davemiller8215 I agree only clean for low grade items. high grade should only be professionally cleaned. I was only joking about them wanting to buy your uncleaned coins so they could clean them and sell them for more....just seeing if anyone in the numismatic field was listening.