Comments on: Franklin & Kennedy Halves on Cover of New Book in Sept. 21 Auction https://www.coinnews.net/2023/09/18/franklin-kennedy-halves-on-cover-of-new-book-in-sept-21-auction/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:11:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Antonio https://www.coinnews.net/2023/09/18/franklin-kennedy-halves-on-cover-of-new-book-in-sept-21-auction/#comment-527748 Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:11:47 +0000 https://www.coinnews.net/?p=98331#comment-527748 These coins don’t look ultra cameo to me. Maybe I should send my coins to NGC to be graded, to get a higher grading than what I’ve gotten from PCGS.

]]> By: Rich https://www.coinnews.net/2023/09/18/franklin-kennedy-halves-on-cover-of-new-book-in-sept-21-auction/#comment-527747 Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:07:35 +0000 https://www.coinnews.net/?p=98331#comment-527747 In reply to Zoota.

Zoota, addressing your question of why cleaning coins is something you should not do, you may find the PCGS article “Come Clean About Cleaning Your Coins” by Nichole Schembre – September 14, 2017 of some value and interest.

]]> By: Zoota https://www.coinnews.net/2023/09/18/franklin-kennedy-halves-on-cover-of-new-book-in-sept-21-auction/#comment-527743 Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:31:42 +0000 https://www.coinnews.net/?p=98331#comment-527743 I have collected coins off and on over some decades and one thing that I always wondered about I would like to get opinions from you collectors on, Why is it that cleaning coins is something that you cannot do. If you even think of doing it you should be put away seems to be the response. That “toning” is part of the coins history. I know gun collectors that will get an old gun stock refinished or the metal all re-blued. Do old car collectors never wash their cars – that mud is part of that cars history. “Oh that rust pattern looks so nice on the hood of that old Z-28 Camaro”.
If you are looking at your coins and you drop one in your tomato soup, don’t wash it because that soup is now part of the coins history. I don’t mean to sandblast or wire brush them for cleaning but what is wrong with a dip in silver cleaner? A local dealer some years ago told me a guy came in looking for a particular coin. The dealer had a toned one and the guy was really sorry it looked so bad and was not what he wanted and wondered if the dealer had any others. the dealer told me he told the guy he may have one in the back and took the coin in the back room and dipped it and rinsed it off then came out and told the guy he found one in back, the guy looked at it and said “Now that is what I am talking about, that is what he was looking for” and bought it completely satisfied.
I have a half dollar recovered from the SS Republic but somehow all the barnacles that were on it in the recovery videos of the wreck are not on it in its slab. Oh that’s right, it was not cleaned, it was “restored”. I guess that is OK. But if you get a coin graded that was cleaned it comes back “Cleaned-net such and such details”.

The 1957 Franklin shown in the article above is not at all desirable to me because of that “corrosion” on it. Even that 1970 Kennedy half looks like it was stored in an album for a year and the cardboard holder worked at toning it. I have albums I put coins in and every so often I take some of them out and dip them as the carboard the page is made of turns the rim of the coin black and if you leave it longer the obverse and reverse start browning. I have seen cardboard albums at auctions with coins in them corroded so bad that if it was copper tubing water pipes in a basement they would leak. I saw the old B-17 Memphis Bell in a tent down at Memphis some decades ago, then when I saw it at the Air Force Museum in Dayton a few years ago it looked brand new, wasn’t all that bird poo that was on it part of the planes history? Even the Statue of Liberty has been cleaned has it not?
I did learn the hard way that a German 5 pfenning coin from WW2 which I put in silver cleaner overnight did not fare too well. In the morning I had only about 30 % of the coin left, apparently zinc does not like silver cleaner. Why is it that coin collecting is the only thing that cleaning is frowned on? Your thoughts?

]]> By: Craig https://www.coinnews.net/2023/09/18/franklin-kennedy-halves-on-cover-of-new-book-in-sept-21-auction/#comment-527742 Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:37:40 +0000 https://www.coinnews.net/?p=98331#comment-527742 I wonder who Ricky boy pays to sign these ‘special’ coin labels? None of his ‘authentic hand signed(?) autographs’ look identical to me. But I’m sure plenty of brain-dead people will pay for these gems. We certainly have plenty of them in this country.

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