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by **SlipperyPenguin** » Aug 15th, '06, 14:39

Hi everyone..

Does anyone know the best way of cleaning and polishing up your half dollars.

Thanks

Slippery

by **katrielalex** » Aug 15th, '06, 14:59

First dip them in a concentrated solution of Mr. Muscle and ammonia. Then attack them with steel wool imbued with a baking soda paste.

No, don't! :p

Kati

by **GoldFish** » Aug 15th, '06, 15:39

You can buy little pots of metal cleaner from hard ware shops. Failing that, leaving them in fresh coke (the drink, not the nose candy) overnight may have the same effect as it has on cleaning pennies. If that fails, get a bit of soap and some warm water. Put the coins in the water, rub them with soap and use your fingers to massage in the lather. Wash them basically. It's always worked for me in the past.

by **Rdw1971** » Aug 15th, '06, 15:41

When I worked at the Royal Mint, the coins where cleaned in a cyanide bath - but thats not much use for you unless you got a licence to deal with cyanide :shock:

I'd recomend some form of Silver cleaning sollution (or Brasso), which can be baught from most Supermarkets they should do the trick (no pun intended!)

by **Mandrake** » Aug 15th, '06, 16:49

Cillit Bang? See the video at http://www.cillitbang.co.uk/demos/demo3_40.html

by **SlipperyPenguin** » Aug 15th, '06, 17:31

Thankyou..

No special techniques then.. just the basic polish or clean.

Cyanide looks good to me (At least it'll have one other use to advertise when I sell it on EBay after I've finished with it..).

I'll give them all a bash and see what happens. (on second thoughts.. not the Cyanide)

Slippery

by **robjustrob** » Aug 15th, '06, 18:16

hi used to be in the army and when money was short but all our brass needed shining get an old toothbrush and some toothpaste rub it on nice and thick and buff up with a nice fluffy towel or a yellow duster works a treat and the shine stays for ages

by **Tadei** » Aug 17th, '06, 23:56

Hehe, must agree with Mandrake - Cillit Bang definitely works

by **Tenko** » Aug 18th, '06, 00:36

Brasso works for me :lol:

by **Michael Jay** » Aug 18th, '06, 01:15

At a jewelers shop, in the USA, you can get a polishing cloth. It is one cloth sewn in front of another. The inner cloth polishes. The outer cloth buffs. You polish the coin without ever touching the chemical that is on the inner cloth, because you constantly handle it from the outer cloth.

Costs a few dollars and does a fine job polishing coins. No spraying, no dipping, just rubbing.

Mike.

by **seige** » Aug 18th, '06, 08:17

If you've not got any super chemicals at your disposal, try soaking the coins in vinegar for a couple of hours—white vinegar works best as it doesn't colour tarnish.

Then, wash them in warm soapy water with a rough cloth or plastic scourer. They will sheen and sparkle like new.

Also, liquid bathroom cleaner works pretty well. JUST MAKE SURE that they aren't abrasive cleaners, and you NEVER use metal scrubbing pads!

by **Rdw1971** » Aug 18th, '06, 08:41

Good idea not to use metal scrubbing pads when washing your dangly bits also.

This advice comes courtesy of Robs Useless Advice Webshite

by **tiggy49** » Aug 18th, '06, 16:41

dunno if this will help but back when i was very young not too long ago :roll:

i had a little sciance set thing anyway to the point to clean pennies it said to use vineger mixed with salt and it looked like the pennie on the cillit bang advert and it was all shiney if i ever find the book ill post what it says but im pretty sure this is it so i assume it'll work for the half dollers too

by **IAIN** » Aug 18th, '06, 16:43

my dad was an avid coin collector for a while, he swore by leaving them to soak in H.P. Sauce overnight, then plonking them in plain old water with a squeeze or two of lemon...

by **AJ82** » Aug 18th, '06, 18:42

Cillit Bang has always worked for me

Someone did tell me once to use coke

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