HAVE I RUINED THEM

[Guest LINDSAY]

I HAVE ABOUT 50 COINS DATING FROM 1900 TO 1960 I HAVE JUST CLEANED THEM IN VINEGAR AND FROM WHAT I HAVE READ ON HERE YOURE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THIS HAVE I RUINED THEM

[Chris Perkins 228]

Probably yes, but if they were just average circulated/worn British coins they probably were not worth anything in the first place!

Why not try to use lower case and a little punctuation next time, it's so much easier on the eye.

[william 0]

What effect did vinegar have on your coins then?!

[Emperor Oli 0]

If you want nice shiny coins to look at by all means clean them but if you want to sell/collect them you have not got a cat in hell's chance of them being valuable anymore unless they're really really rare

[Sylvester 15]

...HAVE I RUINED THEM

With style!

Nothing quite like an acid dipped coin...

But look on the bright side, you'll not do it again!

[william 0]

Nothing quite like an acid dipped coin...   

But what does an acid dipped coin look like!(i've never cleaned/polished a coin in my life! )

[Chris Perkins 228]

The tone goes all wrong, it kind of looks clean and yukky. I had a friend at school who had such sweaty hands he could do it just by holding a coin for an hour or so. Yuk

[Sylvester 15]

The tone goes all wrong, it kind of looks clean and yukky. I had a friend at school who had such sweaty hands he could do it just by holding a coin for an hour or so. Yuk

You can also get coins where there is a patchy surface where the acid has eaten away at the metal. These coins are truely revolting and not very nice to hold, the smell is interesting.

[william 0]

Ugh! Minging.

[Sylvester 15]

Ugh! Minging.

See the Ugly Coin Comp on the coinpeople forum this week, there a very badly dipped sixpence on there, it's been there for the past two weeks...

It's just that bad, they keep voting for it as the ugliest... and it is!

Can you even tell it's a sixpence?

[william 0]

No! Oh, and for anyone who doesn't know the URL, click here

[Sylvester 15]

No! Oh, and for anyone who doesn't know the URL, click here

That's what happens when dipping goes really wrong, then it goes and retones...

[Sylvester 15]

No! Oh, and for anyone who doesn't know the URL, click here

i was going to put up a picture in here, but i must admit i didn't want to drive all of Chris' customers away.

That and the picture was done in 600dpi, so i'd have to rescan the thing to get it to fit on here. And that requires touching the coin again, which i am just not going to do!

[Emperor Oli 0]

See the Ugly Coin Comp on the coinpeople forum this week, there a very badly dipped sixpence on there, it's been there for the past two weeks...

Hahahahaha. Revolting. Truly revolting.

[Sylvester 15]

Hahahahaha. Revolting. Truly revolting.

almost as bad as a Lincoln Cent!

[Emperor Oli 0]

almost as bad as a Lincoln Cent!

Whoa don't go there Sylvester!

[Sylvester 15]

Whoa don't go there Sylvester!

well i was going to say as bad as a Jefferson nickel, but nothing's as bad as that, not even the Churchill Crown.

[Emperor Oli 0]

well i was going to say as bad as a Jefferson nickel, but nothing's as bad as that, not even the Churchill Crown.

I'm not really au fait with American coins but from what I've read a substantial amount of people despise them. And if it's worse than the Churchill well....

[william 0]

We just won't discuss that, Oli!

[Emperor Oli 0]

We just won't discuss that, Oli! 

Why are you mocking me for using italics?