Cleaning Large Cent and Buffalo Nickel

BlueShuckle · Dec 20, 2015

I decided to clean a couple of coins that have been sitting around for awhile. I figured they couldn't get any worse than they already were and decided to put them in the tumbler to try and clean some of the dirt off. I made sure neither of the coins were pitted or worn down because then the tumbler would do more harm than good. Here are a couple of pictures of the before and after. One is an 1851 Large Cent and the other is a 1929 Buffalo Nickel.

They both seemed to clean up rather well and I'm happy with the results! As you can see from the pictures I couldn't even see the obverse picture on the nickel.
For tumbling I used aquarium gravel and dish soap with some water and left each in for two hours separately.

Seven · Dec 21, 2015

Very nice job of cleaning. I've had mixed results tumbling old coins... Yours came out looking great.

amc rulz · Dec 21, 2015

Sure looks like they turned out very well!

joee5 · Dec 21, 2015

Both came out great.

Dirtfishin · Dec 21, 2015

Nice job, I'd love to get a buff. Congrats

Hdnsouth · Dec 25, 2015

What media were you using in your tumbler. Your results are much better than the time's I've tried it. Thanks

The Rebel · Dec 25, 2015

Nice job! Now slap some Ren wax on that LC to protect it.

Digger-Dave · Dec 27, 2015

Blue, good job! :yes:

These are the same results I get when I tumble my dirty clad while using the same formula.
Just a couple of hours will remove the surface build up enough to make them a clean and spendable coins again.

Your coins look great.

Most of all you had two good coins to start with.
Excellent date on the Buffalo and the LC looks like it didn't get a lot of circulation wear either. :cool:

jonnied1 · Apr 9, 2016

Dirtfishin said:
Nice job, I'd love to get a buff. Congrats

I found a buff yesterday, it was in really bad shape, finally found out it was a 2005 buff. Bummer! :mad:

GroundSweeper · Apr 9, 2016

Cleaned up rather well indeed, two beautiful coins, congrats!

Stevo · Apr 9, 2016

Nicely done! That Buff came out better than any of mine.

jga5367 · Apr 9, 2016

Very well done nice job

DirtyPockets · Apr 17, 2016

Those cleaned up very nice.

Patriot1776 · Apr 21, 2016

nice job

BlueShuckle said:
I decided to clean a couple of coins that have been sitting around for awhile. I figured they couldn't get any worse than they already were and decided to put them in the tumbler to try and clean some of the dirt off. I made sure neither of the coins were pitted or worn down because then the tumbler would do more harm than good. Here are a couple of pictures of the before and after. One is an 1851 Large Cent and the other is a 1929 Buffalo Nickel.

They both seemed to clean up rather well and I'm happy with the results! As you can see from the pictures I couldn't even see the obverse picture on the nickel.
For tumbling I used aquarium gravel and dish soap with some water and left each in for two hours separately.

You did very well

CopyTech99 · Apr 21, 2016

Hdnsouth said:
What media were you using in your tumbler. Your results are much better than the time's I've tried it. Thanks

I just use small river rocks from the playground tot lots.

rreahard · Apr 21, 2016

Good job! They look great!

Cleaning Large Cent and Buffalo Nickel

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