Cleaning coins by using adhesives

When cleaning coins, you'll often find that that soaking and scrubbing isn't removing as much dirt as you'd like. The next option is using adhesives.

Adhesives? Yes, using adhesives you can literally pull the dirt and encrustations off a coin's surface. It's every effective, although you'll find it's quite time consuming and tedious.

The easy way of doing this is to stick your dirty coin on some packing tape. Make sure the coin is stuck down firmly, then quickly pull it off. Look at the tape - notice all the dirt that just came off? Keep on repeating this until the coin comes off clean.

You may find that your packing tape doesn't quite have "the sticking power" to remove the really stubborn dirt. That's where a glue gun comes in. Put a couple of drops of hot glue on the coin face, and smear it to an even coat.

Once the glue is dry gently peel it off. Keep on repeating this until the glue comes off clean. Although very labour intensive you'll find that the glue method can remove some of the most stubborn and encrusted dirt when cleaning coins.

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