Metal Detecting Hack: How To Clean (or ruin) Copper Coins
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2015
- In this video, I clean three old, worn large cents. I go from light cleaning to using soap and water to using olive oil. I usually DO NOT use water or oil, but I wanted to demonstrate what happens when you do.
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Metal Detecting Hack: How To Clean (or ruin) Copper Coins
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That was a fantastic video that a lot of us probably wished they saw years ago. I've tried all the methods myself. It's so true that you can't go back. The good thing is that I now "clean" my coins the exact same way you do. Get some dirt off the high points. Leave the low points dirty to highlight the details. I learned the nose grease trick too. I've actually taken completely thin worn slugs and gotten King George and Queen Britainica to appear. Amazing trick. Awesome video. I hope people listen. The coins sacrificed were for an excellent cause. Bravo
Yeah that Braided Hair was Gorgeous. Still a beautiful coin just lost some character
What is nose greese
I’ve lost my two cent piece, my infantry button, another valuable button, a war of 1812 button and a bunch of other valuable m items I have found metal detecting, I am only 13 and am devastated because I can’t display anything good because everything good I’ve found I have ruined by electrolysis😖😫I’m truly devastated
@@lukeg5184 don't worry lots of people wrong this
don't apologize, you taught all of us something. Even though it was at the cost of two coins; it was two for the sake of thousands in the future.
I don't mind the face oil but that finger nail scraping was like nails on a chalk board :D
greg appelgren Agreed. I was yelling at my screen for Beau to stop lol.
***** It was bad enough lol
Same here!
That hurt my ears lol I had to mute the video for a second
Idiot
Thanks. I just started metal detecting a week ago and I would have gone straight to a brush and water. Seemed logical to me before seeing this video. I really appreciate your doing this demonstration! Amazing.
Wow.. Its the first video on CZcams where the guy doesnt try to ruin the coins using acids and abbrasives! Respect!
Here is my cleaning tip. Put the coin in an empty pocket and leave it there for a few days as you go about your business. It will clean up beautifully.
Clever.
Will it remove fingerprints?
I actually did this with an older silve Canadian quarter. They're notorious for having worn dates. I forgot the coin was in my digging pants for a few weeks. It sat in a dirty pocket with sand,dirt, blood, sweat, tears lol. Anyway, it ended up looking better than it did when I first dug it up somehow. I could even read the date.
That is super cool advice
Uncle chill bill
Great video Beau! I have adopted your method now on all of my coppers. I just dug my oldest copper this past Sunday. It was a 1744 King George II. I toothpicked it and I am leaving it alone because it, in my opinion, is beautiful. I too have ruined many coins over the years by trial and error. Hopefully, this video will be seen by younger detectorists so they don't learn the hard way.
You found a George II coin? THAT IS SO FRIGGIN COOL!
Clear and concise about the pros and cons. Very informative video. And to be able to visually see the difference, is highly appreciated!!!
This video is a perfect example of why I love your channel. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! this has been VERY helpful. I'm just getting started with old coins. I've seen other videos on cleaning. I like your method better and if you ruin it "You can't go back". Plus you have a soothing voice.
Just starting in the hobby , This will defintly save my
coins from destruction .
Hi Beau!
Thanks for such a great video! I've tried every method to clean copper coins and olive oil blackens coins to my dismay...Usually I leave them as is for fear of damaging them even further...Your method of cleaning coppers by rubbing your thumb on your face and rubbing the coin is amazing...It really brings out the details....Thanks a million for that great tip!
Jason
YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT!!! Never apologize for teaching us something and probably saving a bunch of coins from destruction.
Ya done good.
Amen! I hate that Mr Beau (or any of us) feels like we have to do that bc of haters on here. Sad but true...
zalmaflash I leárned alot
I learned alot
I'm a manicurest and it nearly killed me when you scraped with your nails
Awesome information!!! Thank-you so much for the "Coin Cleaning Class" I'm so thankful for all of your experience!
Appreciate the info and actual demonstration. Eye Opening! Thanks
Thanks for the sacrifice, hope it helps some people learn the lessons that took you many years to realize (It helped me!). Much appreciated video!
I agree with many of the others here that you have done the hobby a great service with your double sacrifice. Personally, I am just starting out in the hobby. My first metal detector in 45 years will arrive this week (Minelabs X-Terra 505 - I had an old Radio Shack detector when I was a kid and loved it). The first thing I would have done was to break out a soft-bristled toothbrush, water and a touch of Simple Green to clean up any coins I might have found. You have taught me many lessons through your videos and I haven't dug a single thing yet. Bravo and keep up the good work!
Great video Beau. We only use skin oil just as you did in the first step. Anything further than that is risky. We've learned the hard way too!
Thanks for the good advice and taking your time for all of us with this and many other videos.
Thank goodness that I found your video!
I share this video about once a week with folks. Thanks for providing “real” content for the hobby.
Very educational and great advice. Thank you for taking one for the team. Hopefully many coppah’s will be saved by this video. 😎⚒
Great Video !! I've been a treasure hunter for many years now. I ruined so many coins in the beginning because of my cleaning method(s). Thank You for taking the time out and showing some of your cleaning methods. Take Care all and Happy Hunting :)
Thank you for this very informative video that’s still helping people years down the line. I have just started recently and have ruined a couple of coins throw using Brillo. Seeing your jar made me feel a little better knowing that it happens to us all. Greetings from Sheffield in the UK. 😊
I did the soap and water last night on 3 quarters that I found in my yard thank God it was on most recently made quarters (1994, 1996 & 1999). I will not clean them again like I did, I will pick at them just like you did and leave them alone. Love the plain look. I'm new to this just started but I'm hooked! Great video!!
Thanks for making the video - very helpful especially for those of us new to the hobby and looking for expert advice.
I have "ruined" my fair share of roman coins over the years. Oh some of them are pretty and shiny with no detail at all. I now prefer the "dirty" look! Great video Chigg !!
Never realized this about cleaning, or in some instances ruining coins. Great video. Thanks for producing.
Exactly the video I needed to answer my questions. Appreciate it much.
Great video I’ve just started and you’ve stopped me ruining anything I might find 😊
Eyeopening!! I would never had guessed that leaving the light mud would make the coin more beautiful. This was a master class!
VERY iteresting video ! Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to share your knowledge with us ! :)
Glad I am a beginner and have only wrecked a few by washing first!
Thanks for sharing this Beau, top advice.
Best wishes
Carol :)
You just wasted a day doing what I do in 2 hours in my ultrasonic cleaner. I always clean up coins, I don't care if others say it devalues them because who wants to look at a piece of dirt? Thanks for the video, it was useful.
I appreciate the lesson here! I am still fairly new at this so this helps out a lot.
Thanks man. That was highly informative. Of course I say that while I have a quarter soaking in vinegar. Yes, I'm learning from my own mistakes as well.
Thanks Beau. A great demonstration on procedures to take cleaning a coin.
I knew all that oil on my face would come in handy someday, now all I have to do is dig a LC. Thanks man, great advice!
Just as an experiment: Try using a blue LED pen-light on coins, especially if you can't make out the date. I used a blue LED for serial numbers on aluminum plate that had been scraped and scratched to such a condition that I could not make out a single number. With the blue LED the numbers came out PERFECTLY readable. Try it and let me know how that comes out. The last time I bought a pen-light it cost $20.
Great video, Aquachigger. This will absolutely benefit those who are on the fence whether or not to clean coppers. Thank you for sacrificing those coins for the greater good.
Further steps that will ruin coins that I have heard of people doing are:
Pencil Eraser. The eraser will remove environmental patina and will "shine" the coin.
Baking Soda. This will clean down to the bare metal (ruins silver too).
Lemon Juice. Even swishing a copper around in lemon juice for 30 seconds will remove up to 90 percent of the original coating.
Try these steps (and Aquachigger's methods) on modern dug memorials to see for yourself how these methods change the coins.
I don't go digging or finding, but I watch your videos because they're interesting and educational as well as entertaining.
To me not knowing anything about this neat hobbyist really astonishing that the dirtier coin is much nicer looking even to me a non coin guy...
Thanks for the cool vids!
Very cool. My 7 year old daughter collects coins. She enjoyed this very much.
That was a great video, you have stopped me from washing my copper coins in future, what a difference. Thanks Beau, have subbed you.
Excellent info! Thanks for the sacrifices.
Very informational video Beau! Thank you, your videos rock my friend!
Thanks for the video and teaching! I agree that the dry cleaning is best and looks better.
I'm very new to all this , I just started with wheat penny's this week, so thank you for this video. someone gave me a metal detector I hope I can get it to work. thanks again.
When I was a kid back in the mid 80's I got a metal detector for Christmas. That summer my grandparents took me to a cabin site on their farm. I hunted the heck out of it and found all kinds of iron relics bits of the stove, square spikes etc. I was hoping for old coins of course so kind of felt disappointed. Anyway, while I was not finding coins, Grandma found a crusty nickel on the surface. We could not even see what type of nickel it was, so back at the house she put it in the sink and scrubbed it with a sos pad (steel wool for cleaning pots and pans!) After that we knew it was a 1935 buffalo nickel, but it sure looked strange! I later read that we shouldn't do that. Video made me think of that. :)
Another great episode of BEAUs Tips & Tricks!
I think both of the first coins still look good, you might not be able to see the detail as much, but i wouldn't call it ruined. the third coin was pretty toasted to start off and now it really is. The truth here is is that its your coin and you can do what you want with it, the only person wo can call it ruined is yourself. Thanks for sowing us the process and outcomes for each method, very informative.
Thanks for the tips, much appreciated 👍
You are a very good teacher always sharing and helping us new guys watch your video.s from all over bless you and yours super thanks again.
Thank you, Owen Wilson, for helping me clean my display coins, it was very helpful and informative
Thank you for showing us your tricks on cleaning. I appreciate it. God Bless
Great video! I don't detect so I wouldn't have even thought that a dirty coin could look so nice. I also had no idea that further cleaning would make some look so much worse. I only wish you had left the 1840 cent alone and did your demo on the other two.
Thanks Aquachigger. I'm going to use these tips!
I think all of your videos are awesome my friend. Big fan of yours here. And I agree, I did like the step one coin best. I wish I had seen this video a few weeks ago when I found my buffalo nickel. Thanks for the knowledge buddy.
Im glad you made this video...I messed up a lot of coins before I figured it out as well. Now I do it the same way as you, but I use just a tiny bit of olive oil after the tooth pick.
I know this is an older video but it came up as a suggestion, and I really enjoyed the incremental process you followed. Beautiful coins!
I agree with stopping before the soap water brushing. Thanks for sharing.
Great Vid Beau! Defintely learned a couple of things!
Thanks Beau! I haven't found any large cents yet, but if I do I am just going to use the toothpick method. Great information to know thanks for showing what happens!!
Great video thank you for putting this up, it was very helpful.
Omg your collection is incredible
thanx for all your videos Chig, you da man!
Thank the Lord..that I watched your video here, while I'm still new to metal detecting. I've found a few old Pfennigs from the 1800's....and tried to clean them to death...but ended up dissapointed.......Your words "once you go to the next step, you can never go back" will stay in my head from here on out ...which I will apply to all relics.
Very helpful!! I'm kinda learning the same thing on restoring Stanley Planes. Age looks good on old stuff.
Oh man..... great video and a great service to novice collectors and a fantastic service to old coins. Thanks for the instructions.
Novice collector. Don't ever do what he just did. I'm not a novice. And I have many years of collecting. If you have a question about your coins TALK TO A DEALER FIRST. The dealer will know everything there is to tell you about cleaning and NOT cleaning. Just don't do it. You run the risk of losing lots of money in a cleaned coin.
Thanks! this video helped a lot. When I finally get something worth cleaning this will be a great reference. I had been wondering what would work and have tried a few cleaners. They are your coins do what you will, if it were not for you they would still be lost. I think your effort saved me a lot more coins. Lol
Im a newcomer to the hobby also and this was a great video for me, thanks chig!
I had another method that did benefit me when I sold a bunch of old Morgan silver dollars for my mother-in-law. I laid them in the bottom of a stainless steel little sauce pan with aluminum foil lining the bottom underneath. I sprinkled baking soda in there first. I brought them to a simmer for 2 minutes per side (sprinkled more baking soda on turned side ) and removed them from the burner. I left them in the water for 5 minutes I think then as I removed them I used a soft toothbrush with non-abrasive toothpaste to clean them. They looked brand new when I was done with no new scratches. Every buyer was pleased with how shiny and well preserved they looked. I never tried it with copper but it would be worth a shot to see on a less valuable coin.
Great thanks Beau ! will definately change my field technique. Love the vids !
Kolme 1917,1919
Great info!!!! Thank you for sacrificing some of your coins!
Great video, thanks for the demonstration.
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.
I guess I ruined all my coins over the years. Wish I saw this sooner. Always went to step 3 first. Can I rebury em and go back to step 1? Lol
I appreciate your tips! this was a good lesson.
Whata valuable lesson. I am so glad you made this video. I have ruined coins because I didn't know. Thank-you so much.
Great video Beau ,plenty of great info !
Thanks Beau!!
I'll definitely remember this video!!!
W.
Beau, you are exactly right. I wish I had seen your video before I ruined my first indian penny 1863. It was beautiful coming out of the ground but not clean. I went to water, then oil, then vinegar then hydrogen peroxide and it never was good again. Completely messed up the coin so now I can't show it. I think the point you are making is that coins look best when they have a bit of the earthy elements to help provide contrast in the relief. If you've ever built detailed scale models you know this technique is called 'antiquing'. Great video. Keep 'em coming.
Thanks for the demonstration. Great nose oil trick!
Great vid Ty,
When I was a kid we used to do brass rubbings. And after work in some ink paste, then wipe clean. It would normally bring back the detail, And kinda make it pop. Might help with the washed out coin
Thanks for the video and the info shared..! This was very helpful..!
Thanks for the teaching moment. Never cleaned coins but will wipe with cotton or papaer towel if handled. 😀
thanks for showing how to do all the steps, im defiantly gonna do the toothpick then stop, thumbs up love your videos
Beau, I saw you have cats, so you obvious must have a bag of kitty litter somewhere. If it’s the good old type containing bentonite/clay you can hand grind some into a very fine powder and cover that second coin with it, leave it covered for a time and the oil will be absorbed, give it a finger rub and start as your step one. You might find you very close to being back to what you liked in step one. Worth a try.
downunderwest I think that is an interesting idea. I think I'll try it with some old indian heads I have to see if they look any better than they do now.
Excellent video and I appreciate you taking the time and sacrificing some coins for this. I am new to the sport and would have automatically used water before seeing this. Thanks again!
Thanks a lot for showing me (us) the methods you use. I have been using soap and water on my coins the put oil on them. I was sways trying to find a better way... I think this method I'll use now!!
Thanks for the video. Good information.
Very interesting Beau thanks for posting it.
Good cleaning tips, thanks.
Thanks for sacrificing 2 coins . Excellent video on cleaning and overcleaning !!!
A tough lesson to learn the hard way. I remember helping my brother clean his 1864 2 cent coin with soap and water, and then soaking in lemon juice. when we were done you could not tell what it was let alone date it. Thanks Beau.
Thanks Beau! That was a great video and very informative. I will never ruin another coin again!
Very interesting video, I really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for showing me that "dirt" can be good. It really showed detail that would be lost. I have done the water n soap to start, and didn't like it at all. Toothpicks from now on. Thanks Again Beau for Great Tip.
Thanks for great advice.
Thanks Beau, great tips in here.
Thank You for teaching me this lesson