Metal Detecting Paradise 2010

[detectingfreak]

I used vinigar while cleaning my recent coins i found. They turned out bad!!!!! Man my coins were ruined. All of them turned either purple or yellow or were rotting away. Its a lesson in while cleaning coins. Next time i wont use vinegar! Bad desicion!

[BjC]

Vinegar only works well on copper coins...

[pastfinder1]

I've also used vineagar @ salt while tumbling clad coins and my coins turned many colours. I found that if I rinse out the dirty water and tumble again with nothing but clean water for about 4 to 6 hours, the coins look much better. Worth a try anyway.

[JB(MS)]

Vinegar and salt will turn clad coins red, or a combination of colors, if it's used for the entire tumbling process, but it really helps clean coins if you'll only use it for 20 to 25 minutes, then pour it out, rinse it out of the tumbler and tumlbing meduim and then use plain water with a few drops of some kind of detergent or soap for the rest of the tumbling process. The acid in the salt and vinegar loosens the crud, and by only using if for 20 minutes or so the coins don't change color. I've tumbling my dirty coins that way for well over 20 years and the coins come out fine. A few will always be kind of dull looking but not discolored, and the rest come out almost as shiny as new.
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[Goes4ever]

vinegar and salt can also be used to clean old nickels that are red, it will take red away
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[kai-gold]

I only used salt and vinegar for five minutes and it turned my wheaties a pinkish purple. Won't do that again. Fortunately, the wheaties were already trashed and were common dates or else I would not have tried to clean them.