Boiling coins

[creilly]

I read about boiling pennies and will be trying that this afternoon. Can you boil other coins too? I have some morgans and peace dollars that look like they were buried in the back 40's manure pile. Smell like it too. Talk about un-natural toning. Haa haa

[coppercoins]

The reason for boiling cents is to get the black crud off of them that gathers around the letters through circulation...no other reason. I would recommend against trying it for any other reason.

[creilly]

good thing I only cooked 2 coins.

[eagames]

The only good thing that I've done to coins in the kitchen was to re-color some ruined erased harshly cleaned stuff like Indian cents that looked erased (cleaned with erasers) and ugly. I put them in a ball of mud, make them into cookies. Put em on a baking sheet at about 500 and let em bake then check them and put them back if not done. After about an hour they were nice brown colored. I'm sure good graders would see they were cleaned but they looked much better than a brightly cleaned ruined coin. Heck those were ruined anyway. Nothing else seems to make them brown again but this did.

Sort of the opposite of cleaning coins

Being in Arizona I've seen that if you leave a coin in the dirt in the summer sun they can tone up in a week but harshly cleaned ones worked better in the cookies.

[coop]

Ed: I've found rolls of coins I bought at a coin show that one side of the coin is toned the other one normal. Several in the roll this way. I'm betting the OBW roll was stored near heat (Arizona Heat) and left there in storage for a time and sold not knowing what it did to them. Gives you something to look at while searching them for varieties.