I don't get how this ruins their value. If you're buying the junk silver for its silver value and not for its numismatic value, I think clean and shiny looks great, and many people would be glad to buy it as such.
I USE THE SAME TYPE TUMBLER SETUP. Using no pre-soak chemicals and just a little dish washing liquid in the tumbler gets me the same results. I do tumble once for an hour to knock of the major grime and then rinse and tumble a second time for about two hours. Shiny like brand new!
Wow. You got those coins super shiny. I use E-Z-est too...but with gloves, as it really dries the skin out. With your tumbler and jewelry shot...super nice, but most of us don't have those. I do what you said, dip shortly then rinse. I rub, with gloves, as needed. I clean a lot of my junk for the same reason...I know it's just melt value silver. When I first went to my local shops and started "inspecting" the junk, they both said, "oh you won't find anything of numismatic value in these trays. We know what has numismatic value, and we do inspect our coins. This tray is for plain 'ole junk. That tray is for a little bit better junk. Those trays over there are for really good looking junk, and this case over here is where we place all coins of numismatic value in cardboard flips and price each one individually." Although I can sometimes find some nice AU coins in the "ole junk" trays, there's never anything of any real numismatic value in them. Thanks for the show. It was enjoyable to watch.
I will be using my junk silver to buy things Straight across the barrel head. And melt value is my primary consideration. I cleaned most of my junk. Not the walking liberty or any Barber.
Great video! I definitely hate shiny silver coins! I buy junk silver for the toning and normal patina and wear. Hower, I highly dislike the culls and the ones that have black and dark films on them!
Those coins really look nice. I'd probably even prefer them that way, on the stuff that you would buy for close to spot. Just be careful cleaning those coins, I once bought a $100 face bag of roosevelt dimes and while looking though it not only found a few mercs and barbers but even an 1834 capped bust dime! It was a bag from provident metals lol. Supposed to be only Roosevelts. Don't accidentally clean one of those. Thanks for sharing HiHo!
I’m curious to know if you’ve noticed faster toning on your coins after cleaning them using the second solution? They definitely came out brighter after using the second solution and tumbler. I’ve only used the E-Z-est for a quick dip and it work well enough for me. I only clean constitutional that is really unattractive and that I’ve carefully checked to ensure that I’m not messing up a potentially valuable coin.
Hey HiHo, I never thought of it before, but what kinda price do have to get for that shiny junk silver? Wondering, because I would love to have a box full of shiny Constitutional silver, so my son and I can enjoy them (looking at & handling them).
Great video my friend. Thanks for the disclaimer. But, this is certainly the best way to clean coins (mainly non-numi spending silver). There is one other way thought hat involves no chemicals or abrasives. Steam cleaning. Stay tuned for a video on that coming in the future. Great job on this one!
ahhh, now I can properly clean my junk! It's canadian junk, but I want it shiny, reconditioned is what you called it before I think? Or was it refurbished? Either way I am well on my way to cleaning my roll of canadian quarters! Thanks hi ho, you are a bad influence with great results! lol
Agree, its ok to clean some junk. I can't help but imagine how many of those old coins have come out of sewers or off dead bodies! A jewelers shining cloth will shine it up pretty fast too, and ruin it just as much! Take care, LL
There is a hotel some where in the states that did this for there customers. It was on Dirty Jobs. but I forgot the Hotel name. Clean your junk. It had already been cleaned before.
Do you have any advice on burnishing? i dont know if its the shot i bought, but the stuff I burnish always comes out with these tiny holes in it. I have a lortone tumbler, use the shinebrite and i dont believe I am over weighing it. Its pretty frustrating!
THERE IS NO VALUE BEYOND MELT FOR THE MAJORITY OF THESE COINS. JUST CLEAN THEM (after you have looked at each one to be sure that none have a collectable value)
This is a lot of time and it looks like a substantial investment. You don't increase the value of what you have , a dirty silver quarter and a clean silver quarter and both just worth silver value. I have a lot of dirty junk silver I would like to do this to, was wondering if there is a cheap way to do this to a few thousand coins that won't cost a ton? I see people cleaning coins with baking soda but they are just doing a couple of coins at a time.
Greetings, I have many thousands of coins as well. I do prefer getting that grime off my 90% silver coins. It is a process, I don’t have and wouldn’t do the tumbler, but I have put my coins in a bucket with dawn 4x, 1 cup of baking soda, and water, just enough to cover the coins and let them soak for a couple days, stirring or agitating 2x daily. This removes so much grime, oil, dirt, you’ll be amazed. And it’s not labor intensive. The labor comes in the rinsing and drying. They won’t come out looking like these coins in this video, but they will look so much better and you will feel more free handling them.
If they are not special date coins who cares if they are cleaned. We are all buying these for the silver right. If the value is that it looks like dog shit and is filthy I don't want it. I will clean that 8 days a week. But that's just me.
Well in general cleaning coins can damage some of a coin’s the finer details and it can lose its luster especially in the radial lines… but junk silver has been rolling around in people’s pockets for decades. If THAT didn’t ruin the value then cleaning it safely probably won’t either. In fact, a CZcamsr pretty much debunked it. He cleaned a bunch of coins and sent them into be graded and the graders couldn’t tell. So bottom line, if you can slip it past the graders, it doesn’t matter.
I know that knowledgeable coin collectors, dealers, stackers, etc, don’t recommend cleaning coins, and when one understands the pro v con of cleaning coins, go for it. A lesson I learned after the fact is that once a coin is cleaned that should not have been cleaned it’s too late to reverse it-a reminder is unnecessary. 😔 😎
+Edwin It "ruins" the coin for coin collectors. Don't clean any coins that have a value (due to rarity, condition, etc.) beyond the melt value of the silver. The coins that he cleaned in this video are basically only worth the silver they are made of.
So dirt and grime and god knows what else makes coins more valuable to collectors. In my experience selling coins dealers in my area pay less than melt anyway.
I like shiny stuff but I hear, as you have said, don't clean your silver. I also have a question. What sense does it make to buy low and sell high when you are trading $20 an oz. +- silver for worthless fiat currency that you will be stuck with while waiting for the price to go down again? Also, why buy silver coins for $20 ea +-. when they only have a face value of $1.00?
Lose the sharp burnishing rods, just use small stainless steel shot and the finish will be mirror-like. Initially I came to the same conclusion about which coins to clean because those three were also issued in clad versions. However I've since added Franklins because they have such large fields that look real good with the proof-like mirror, and most 90% Kennedys aren't dirty and have a nice cartwheel luster that is a shame to remove. An ounce of silver is one Franklin half, 2 Washington quarters, and 4 Roosevelt dimes.
Any non-slick half dollar will do just fine. Or you could use 14 dimes. Quarters are good to have in the mix so you can make quarter ounces (35¢) I am gifting an old teacher of my daughters a $1.40 bag tomorrow. The little black velveteen that holds the surprise drawstring bag is only 13¢ when you buy 100 at Amazon. Everyone is impressed with the shiny coins. This is a good way to sell silver to anyone but a dealer. However if you are trading for an ounce of .999 fine, then I'd offer $1.35 in constitutional coins in trade since the fractional form will be a bit more practical if silver ever gets over the $100 a gram price.
does you friend check for errors and new errors are being added all the time. This is such a bad idea and the year 1964 has tons of errors for all denominations some being over $100 per coin..... I hate seeing this it just completely ruins the coins. If you want bright coins go buy some proofs or bullion but stop ruining coins PLEASE. The dimes have tons of errors and new errors being added all the time
That is WAY too many steps, and you risk scratching coins further.. try my method…My constitutional silver comes out looking like proof coins, and using simply household items You will need: Baking Soda, tin foil, water, microfiber towel Start boiling some water… While waiting for that to boil… Wrap a dish in tin foil, make sure dull side is facing up and that will be the side that comes in contact with the silver Place coins in bowl and cover them generously with baking soda Pour boiling water into dish, you will see immediate reaction. As it cools, stir it around with something non abrasive … do not use nails, stainless steel knives, or axe head to mix. Simple toothbrush is fine Once it’s cool, place a dab of baking soda on a coin and rub with fingers. I use medical rubber gloves if cleaning a lot of coins Place into cold water bowl after. As you dry them with micro fiber, that will bring shine out
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I'd buy cleaned junk silver over dirty ones.
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HAHA, love the "here's how to do something right that you shouldn't do at all" part :)
I don't get how this ruins their value. If you're buying the junk silver for its silver value and not for its numismatic value, I think clean and shiny looks great, and many people would be glad to buy it as such.
i agree
I USE THE SAME TYPE TUMBLER SETUP. Using no pre-soak chemicals and just a little dish washing liquid in the tumbler gets me the same results. I do tumble once for an hour to knock of the major grime and then rinse and tumble a second time for about two hours. Shiny like brand new!
Nice demo HIHo Silver! I especially enjoyed your soft sounding intro vs. something loud and jarring to the ears.
Wow. You got those coins super shiny. I use E-Z-est too...but with gloves, as it really dries the skin out. With your tumbler and jewelry shot...super nice, but most of us don't have those.
I do what you said, dip shortly then rinse. I rub, with gloves, as needed. I clean a lot of my junk for the same reason...I know it's just melt value silver.
When I first went to my local shops and started "inspecting" the junk, they both said, "oh you won't find anything of numismatic value in these trays. We know what has numismatic value, and we do inspect our coins. This tray is for plain 'ole junk. That tray is for a little bit better junk. Those trays over there are for really good looking junk, and this case over here is where we place all coins of numismatic value in cardboard flips and price each one individually."
Although I can sometimes find some nice AU coins in the "ole junk" trays, there's never anything of any real numismatic value in them.
Thanks for the show. It was enjoyable to watch.
Very shiny coins! Thanks for sharing.
I will be using my junk silver to buy things Straight across the barrel head.
And melt value is my primary consideration. I cleaned most of my junk. Not the walking liberty or any Barber.
I would love to know when your gonna start making bars again do you post a link for where you sell your stuff? I'm a big fan of your process
I know I'm not supposed to clean constitutional silver...BUT THIS VIDEO MAKES ME WANT TO! 🤩
Great video! I definitely hate shiny silver coins! I buy junk silver for the toning and normal patina and wear. Hower, I highly dislike the culls and the ones that have black and dark films on them!
Yeah, I love it shiny... so I also clean my junk. Thanks for this tutorial video. I now have to get some tumblers... ;-)
HiHo Silver shit, I knew I should have kept that thing from when I was a kid
I understand your point great video thank you
Those coins really look nice. I'd probably even prefer them that way, on the stuff that you would buy for close to spot. Just be careful cleaning those coins, I once bought a $100 face bag of roosevelt dimes and while looking though it not only found a few mercs and barbers but even an 1834 capped bust dime! It was a bag from provident metals lol. Supposed to be only Roosevelts. Don't accidentally clean one of those. Thanks for sharing HiHo!
Does just dipping coins hurt their value too or only when you add the tumbler in? I can't believe how nice those came out
I’m curious to know if you’ve noticed faster toning on your coins after cleaning them using the second solution? They definitely came out brighter after using the second solution and tumbler. I’ve only used the E-Z-est for a quick dip and it work well enough for me.
I only clean constitutional that is really unattractive and that I’ve carefully checked to ensure that I’m not messing up a potentially valuable coin.
Hey HiHo, I never thought of it before, but what kinda price do have to get for that shiny junk silver? Wondering, because I would love to have a box full of shiny Constitutional silver, so my son and I can enjoy them (looking at & handling them).
I like your shiny junk HiHo ! Lmao. I agree with the roosevelts , washingtons and jfk's only.
Great video my friend. Thanks for the disclaimer. But, this is certainly the best way to clean coins (mainly non-numi spending silver). There is one other way thought hat involves no chemicals or abrasives. Steam cleaning. Stay tuned for a video on that coming in the future. Great job on this one!
You gave the perfect balance with your disclaimer and more than justified it for your uses in my mind. Well done!
Good advise!
Love the ezest never left longer than 15 sec was srprised you left in that long i use this for bars too like you i like shiny
They looked great when they were done!!
Cool video. I would do this to if I had that much junk.
Interesting video, thanks for that :)
So cool! Like the day they were born :)
ahhh, now I can properly clean my junk! It's canadian junk, but I want it shiny, reconditioned is what you called it before I think? Or was it refurbished? Either way I am well on my way to cleaning my roll of canadian quarters! Thanks hi ho, you are a bad influence with great results! lol
Nice Video HiHo. Thank you for sharing my friend. :-)))
Nice looking JUNK!!
Agree, its ok to clean some junk. I can't help but imagine how many of those old coins have come out of sewers or off dead bodies! A jewelers shining cloth will shine it up pretty fast too, and ruin it just as much! Take care, LL
This is where the Quick Silver came from? Mercury shinning up Quarters!
Quick in that context means living or alive. Remember from the Bible, "the quick and the dead"?
I have a few dimes I am thinking of cleaning. Have a 1960, and I just found a 1942 Roosevelt while coin roll hunting.
Looks great to me. I like shiny "junk" silver.
I think you should spray them with a rust prevention oil. Even though silver doesn't rust, it oxidizes.
There is a hotel some where in the states that did this for there customers. It was on Dirty Jobs. but I forgot the Hotel name. Clean your junk. It had already been cleaned before.
The silver dip alone does the job for me and lightly tarnished UNC coins become BU with no loss of value.
Do you have any advice on burnishing? i dont know if its the shot i bought, but the stuff I burnish always comes out with these tiny holes in it. I have a lortone tumbler, use the shinebrite and i dont believe I am over weighing it. Its pretty frustrating!
HiHo Silver Thanks HiHo. I will give it a shot...no pun intended
Love shiny junk!
did you use a microwave for your timer lol?
Shinny junk or patina junk its really just a matter of preference.
THERE IS NO VALUE BEYOND MELT FOR THE MAJORITY OF THESE COINS. JUST CLEAN THEM (after you have looked at each one to be sure that none have a collectable value)
as stated in vid👍👍
Thanks showing us what not to do. The result of doing such a bad thing is some really pretty junk.
Great howto HiHo!
As long as it's junk silver and nothing that has any numismatic value clean till your heart's content
This is a lot of time and it looks like a substantial investment. You don't increase the value of what you have , a dirty silver quarter and a clean silver quarter and both just worth silver value. I have a lot of dirty junk silver I would like to do this to, was wondering if there is a cheap way to do this to a few thousand coins that won't cost a ton? I see people cleaning coins with baking soda but they are just doing a couple of coins at a time.
Greetings, I have many thousands of coins as well. I do prefer getting that grime off my 90% silver coins. It is a process, I don’t have and wouldn’t do the tumbler, but I have put my coins in a bucket with dawn 4x, 1 cup of baking soda, and water, just enough to cover the coins and let them soak for a couple days, stirring or agitating 2x daily. This removes so much grime, oil, dirt, you’ll be amazed. And it’s not labor intensive. The labor comes in the rinsing and drying. They won’t come out looking like these coins in this video, but they will look so much better and you will feel more free handling them.
The `64 quarter about 0:46 was already shiny with good appeal mint luster. A eraser would have cleaned it more nicely :)
Also have a mercury dime
How does it ruin the coins?? Weird coin people think that way. It should make no difference
HiHo Silver but why??
If they are not special date coins who cares if they are cleaned. We are all buying these for the silver right. If the value is that it looks like dog shit and is filthy I don't want it. I will clean that 8 days a week. But that's just me.
cool
bonitas baby!!!!
Why does it ruin any value over melt?
No one seems to wish to provide any explanation for this at all.
Well in general cleaning coins can damage some of a coin’s the finer details and it can lose its luster especially in the radial lines… but junk silver has been rolling around in people’s pockets for decades. If THAT didn’t ruin the value then cleaning it safely probably won’t either. In fact, a CZcamsr pretty much debunked it. He cleaned a bunch of coins and sent them into be graded and the graders couldn’t tell. So bottom line, if you can slip it past the graders, it doesn’t matter.
They look like brand new old ones
I know that knowledgeable coin collectors, dealers, stackers, etc, don’t recommend cleaning coins, and when one understands the pro v con of cleaning coins, go for it.
A lesson I learned after the fact is that once a coin is cleaned that should not have been cleaned it’s too late to reverse it-a reminder is unnecessary. 😔
😎
I could never do it.
why does it ruin the coin?
+Edwin It "ruins" the coin for coin collectors. Don't clean any coins that have a value (due to rarity, condition, etc.) beyond the melt value of the silver. The coins that he cleaned in this video are basically only worth the silver they are made of.
You didn't answer his question, just reworded it
So dirt and grime and god knows what else makes coins more valuable to collectors. In my experience selling coins dealers in my area pay less than melt anyway.
Sold for nice profit
You fingers look better than a an hour at nail shop. Bonus?
I like shiny stuff but I hear, as you have said, don't clean your silver. I also have a question. What sense does it make to buy low and sell high when you are trading $20 an oz. +- silver for worthless fiat currency that you will be stuck with while waiting for the price to go down again? Also, why buy silver coins for $20 ea +-. when they only have a face value of $1.00?
Thank you.
Honestly?
I agree with not cleaning them except in the cases where I have have purchased some majorly disgusting coins.
Great tips though silver is silver.
I think maybe you like the shiny shiny?? Lol
I way prefer cleaned coins.
I cringed when I saw you putting your bare hands in that ezest. . .
Not your fault but I'm really starting to hate the term junk silver. Lol
Can you ruin junk silver lol I love my junk.
I clean my junk, it’s mine. Oh well.
Lose the sharp burnishing rods, just use small stainless steel shot and the finish will be mirror-like. Initially I came to the same conclusion about which coins to clean because those three were also issued in clad versions. However I've since added Franklins because they have such large fields that look real good with the proof-like mirror, and most 90% Kennedys aren't dirty and have a nice cartwheel luster that is a shame to remove. An ounce of silver is one Franklin half, 2 Washington quarters, and 4 Roosevelt dimes.
StepStepBrother so $1.40 in 90% junk silver is one Troy ounce in silver? Does it really have to be a franklin half?
Any non-slick half dollar will do just fine. Or you could use 14 dimes. Quarters are good to have in the mix so you can make quarter ounces (35¢) I am gifting an old teacher of my daughters a $1.40 bag tomorrow. The little black velveteen that holds the surprise drawstring bag is only 13¢ when you buy 100 at Amazon. Everyone is impressed with the shiny coins. This is a good way to sell silver to anyone but a dealer. However if you are trading for an ounce of .999 fine, then I'd offer $1.35 in constitutional coins in trade since the fractional form will be a bit more practical if silver ever gets over the $100 a gram price.
StepStepBrother ah ok. Thanks for the info!
does you friend check for errors and new errors are being added all the time. This is such a bad idea and the year 1964 has tons of errors for all denominations some being over $100 per coin..... I hate seeing this it just completely ruins the coins. If you want bright coins go buy some proofs or bullion but stop ruining coins PLEASE. The dimes have tons of errors and new errors being added all the time
That is WAY too many steps, and you risk scratching coins further.. try my method…My constitutional silver comes out looking like proof coins, and using simply household items
You will need:
Baking Soda, tin foil, water, microfiber towel
Start boiling some water…
While waiting for that to boil…
Wrap a dish in tin foil, make sure dull side is facing up and that will be the side that comes in contact with the silver
Place coins in bowl and cover them generously with baking soda
Pour boiling water into dish, you will see immediate reaction.
As it cools, stir it around with something non abrasive … do not use nails, stainless steel knives, or axe head to mix. Simple toothbrush is fine
Once it’s cool, place a dab of baking soda on a coin and rub with fingers. I use medical rubber gloves if cleaning a lot of coins
Place into cold water bowl after. As you dry them with micro fiber, that will bring shine out
Step one:
Don't
Step 2: Disregard step one.
Step 3: Don’t provide explanation why