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Title: over cleaned not no more Post by: Dale on February 03, 2013, 05:34:21 PM Hi all,
I went to my local coin fair today to see what was about. I came across a Edward penny that had been over cleaned. It was priced fair but I still managed to get a few £'s off as I mentioned the cleaning ;) I showed it to a friend of mine that is a very big collector of hammered coins, im talking 1000's for one coin :o He said what you want to do with that is hard boil an egg, peel it and place it in a bowl with the coin the egg must be hot, cover the bowl with a saucer and check it every couple of mins so thats what I did, it went a golden colour first and then started to go darker to a lovely natural blue/gray tone. I was very pleased with the result, it toned even, covered the scratch on the bust, well took your eye of it abit! It also doesn't look as pitted. Iv tried alot of ways including bleach, liver of sulpher, it tends to make them to black, the look is so much more natural with the egg. This way worked the best for me. Title: Re: over cleaned not no more Post by: WeCan-Octavian on February 03, 2013, 05:38:36 PM Good result Dale well done
Title: Re: over cleaned not no more Post by: stever on February 03, 2013, 06:08:44 PM nice one mate :)
Title: Re: over cleaned not no more Post by: Villan (Neil) on February 03, 2013, 06:36:44 PM Nice little trick,works a treat by the look of it,cheers buddy ;)
Title: Re: over cleaned not no more Post by: GJH on February 03, 2013, 06:39:26 PM Thats a good tip to remember Title: Re: over cleaned not no more Post by: Mike on February 03, 2013, 06:44:29 PM nice one and u get an egg sandwich when its done ;) ;)
Title: Re: over cleaned not no more Post by: DEADLOCK on February 03, 2013, 06:44:43 PM Good result
Title: Re: over cleaned not no more Post by: cardiffian on February 03, 2013, 07:16:39 PM Really interesting tip.Thanks for sharing Dale. I have a few that I will try it on.
Title: Re: over cleaned not no more Post by: Dale on February 03, 2013, 07:46:13 PM Cheers all, I might be stating the obibous but you must turn the coin over to tone the other side. lol
Title: Re: over cleaned not no more Post by: probono on February 03, 2013, 09:41:16 PM Myself I use a mixture of liquid handsoap from Adli's and spent acid from cleaning coins (usually spent Jeweller's pickling).
my favourite result was from a coin I decided to sell (not one I had found) and the dealer couldn't believe that it had only come out of the ground a few years earlier because 'toning like that takes decades'....... I use (sometimes) flowers of sulphur for bronzes |