what happens to silver in VINEGAR??? 

Thanks for the vinegar test. Recognize that any scrubbing like the toothpaste or even scrubbing with baking soda will create micro-scratches that will damage the coin.

Videos like this one should be the very first one you see anywhere! Thank you for your video......although it would have saved me time and money in the past.😢

Wow! Thank you!!!! I was going clean my jewelry with vinegar. You just saved my jewelry! Very cool video I wasn't expecting that at all!

It did exactly what I expected, just took longer then I expected. Thanks for the verification. I'm off to tone down the finish on some silver jewelry.

Kudos on a video that is straight to the point!

Dude. This helped find a huge flaw in my most recent experiments. Thank you.

Wow, very informative & not what I expected! Thanks for this 😁

Very nice video . It was so nice to see the entire process

Thank you for this experiment. Very healpful for my jewelry cleaning

Thanks for testing all three and sharing... Making my life much easier... 😁🤗

I ain't never tried removing tarnished silver coins with vinegar. But when I soaked my silver Morgan and Peace dollars for about 15 minutes in the vinegar it successfully removed the green patina tint that had developed over a number of years on the coins without darkening the surface at all. The fact that I dip them in vinegar was undetectable.

Add baking soda, use an aluminum pan, or line a pan with aluminum foil

I heard that vinegar whiten and helps remove tarnish on silver but before doing it I tried looking at the web and here on youtube to see if anyone can show me evidently if it works and seeing your vid, I disregarded the vinegar thingy and tried the toothpaste with a toothbrush and damn it works like magic! Hands up to you bruh!!!

"Copper Clad" implies that Copper is bonded over some other metal. The clad coin is two layers of cupronickel ( 75% copper and 25% nickel ), on a core of pure copper. The total composition of the coin is 8.33% nickel, with the remainder copper. ( see wiki page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_(United_States_coin) ).

Thanks for the solution...proof positive!

the least destructive I've found is using electro chemical (20grams table salt, 10 grams baking soda, hot or boiling water with aluminum, or a battery and connecting both ends to the silver piece) to remove tarnish. Then boiling water with and sponge to try and remove any greasy deposits, dawn maybe helpful here too. The next step up would be toothpaste and baking soda.

That’s cool I wanted to tarnish a coin, I want this old look 👍🏼

The toothbrush and paste is polishing it, the baking soda method removes only tarnish and leaves the dull areas looking dull

vinegar, just like air, bleach and alcohol will tarnish/blacken silver. I never use these when I have my sterling silver bracelets on or I just wear gloves that reach to my elbow. Thanks for this experiment. I was curious about reactions of less than 92.5 silver content and acids.

This is probably the funniest video I’ve ever seen on RU-vid, man. Literally the last thing I was expecting to see was toothpaste being squirted onto a half dollar coin.

Add baking soda leave for a few minutes then rinse with a sponge pad soaked in soapy water

do a video of cleaning the dark ones with toothpaste now that they are super dark ... lets see the results to that!

Good to know. Thank you.

Thnx man that really very useful video.

I already control bleach my own jeans. Which looks way better than any store. I'm trying to see if I can control tarnish silver coins today.

Wow, thank you for sharing this info. I have a small sack of old silver coins that I want to clean, so I'll try the toothpaste and tooth brush method. Also, just subcribed to your channel! 😊😊

simple and awesome video!

What kind of vinegar did you used too? And how much acidity?

Sir, I would like to know of the blacken silver which soaked for 48 hours will work the same on stainless and silver-plated flatware?

I have noticed that if my silver rings look a bit tarnished and I wash my hands, I usually use the dish soap in the kitchen sink, they lose the tarnish. I have even noticed the same thing after I take a shower. I don't know if I would have the same result with a badly tarnished ring.

I found vinegar works brilliantly on corroded silver. I Got a bag of old Netherlands East Indies .720 silver guilders from the 30s and early 40s that were completely corroded with severe green and brown chunks of corrosion. I paid melt for them so I wasn't concerned about their numismatic value per-se. Anyway, I started with a quick wash in warm water with some dish soap and a scrub to remove loose dirt and grime. Initially I actually tried the baking soda method but found that only worked with removing dirt and tarnish, while having little discernable effect on the corrosion. I also found baking soda to be severely abrasive leading to quite prominent and unsightly scratching. As such I went back to the drawing board and found a video on using vinegar. I got a cheap bottle of white vinegar and a dropped a few of the coins in a small tub of the stuff to observe the effects. Within 15 minutes the vinegar started taking on a greenish tint. After a couple of hours, nearly half of the better condition coins were perfectly clean, It took about 18 hours of soaking, with a periodic scrub using a soft tooth brush, along with some light picking at at heavy chunks of corrosion with a dental pick and bamboo skewers, but even the worst examples came perfectly clean. I'm not sure why your coins tarnished so badly in vinegar as mine didn't tarnish at all and were brighter and shinier even than when I first washed. Maybe it was the higher silver content of your US Constitutional sliver. I've also seen people post videos getting good results using peroxide but haven't tried that yet. Perhaps the biggest lesson is that every coin and every situation is different so you should probably do some tests with different methods first, while being careful not to do any further damage. While it may be junk silver, ugly corroded and dirty silver will put their silver value into question even as their condition has pretty much already destroyed their numismatic value anyway.

Found this very useful. Thumbs up

That is exactly the result i was looking for now to figure out how to do this on nickel

Try lime juice with some salt in it , heat up the silver or gold with a tourch not to much and drop it in . I was a jewler for 10years that's how they cleaned metal in Belize cheap and very effective

I use dawn dish washing liquid, cleans without the abrasive.

For copper coins or copper pans. Vinegar and salt. Lightly scrub. Rinse it with water.

Thank you for saving my time ☺️

A girl friend of mine in high school used to shine her silver hoop earrings with lipstick lol it works wonders!

I used aluminum foil hot water and baking soda. You will smell the tarnish in minutes. Will not hurt the silver.

If they are worth nothing, can I buy a few?

You are a life saver, tooth paste is amazing

The silver coin thats get black coz of vinegar. Can it be clean again?

Try covering the 90 percent coins with milk and let them sit for a couple hours until the milk gets sour.. then take them out, rinse with water and put into vinegar.. coins turn into a spectacular black color

Thank you; very useful information.

I'm surprised at your results. I'm not sure why you got the results you did but I make silver (and copper) jewelry and instead of buying commercial acids to clean off the fire scale from soldering, I use warm vinegar with salt and it amazing how well it cleans off the firescale from silver (and copper for that matter). After I remove my cleaned pieces, I either tumble it with steel shot and soapy water (blue Dawn dish soap) or brush with a brass brush and Dawn (soap acts as a lubricant) and it turns out beautiful and shiney. So again, I don't know what's happening there but I find it strange. LOL! Thanks for sharing and piquing my curiosity. 😄

I wonder if that can also confirm that something is silver. Is there any other metal that tarnishes so much when put into vinegar?

That was a good 30 seconds worth of video.

I clean my coins with a sparkle solution, it's beautiful. I have old silver $$$

Thanks. Colgate worked!

Instructions unclear the whole inside of my house is dark

Wow, thanks for sharing... I was thinking about using vinegar to clean my silver but I thought I check to see how it works. God is so good. He gave me wisdom and this video to help. Thanks again.🕊

Does this work with other metals? I want to make a bronze-zinc coin shine

Hey I have cleaned crappy looking silver coins for years....vinegar does work but you have to leave it for a few minutes then wipe it off with a cheese cloth. The longer you leave it in vinegar the darker it will be. Also a cheaper method is warm water, vinegar (50/50 mix) with salt and leave it in for a few minutes at a time and then cheesecloth to wipe it down.

Put enough Acetone in a bowl enough to cover the coin. About 5 minutes and take it out. Put coin is a bowl of distilled water, Take it out and put in another bowl of distilled water. Take coin out and gently blot dry with a clean soft towel. Put coin on another soft towel to air dry turning occasionally. Careful with the Acetone not to breath in the fumes. I had some newer uncirculated silver that was getting a stained look. Cleaned them this way, sent to PCGS for grading and they didn't know they were cleaned. All coins came back graded mint state 1 was graded mint state 70, 3 were mint state 69. They were all Silver Eagles. I never rubbed the coins, the Acetone does the work.

_What type of toothpaste should I use?_

Super interesting!!!!

What about borax, which does a great job on most things?

I have an old silver bar with black tarnish on both ends, the ends are not wrapped tightly. I sure won't get near vinegar..😒

GOOD TO KNOW! THANK YOU!

Warm vinegar with a teaspoon of salt cleans modern coins well. So does hot sauce. No joke. Try it.

Real interesting. Thanks.

My experience so far is toothpaste isn't enough to clean a coin tarnished by soaking a long time in vinegar. We're you able to get the coin clean that you tarnished so badly? Thank you.

Thank you for the experiment... Was trying to use vinegar to clean my girlfriend's silver rings 😅😅😅

If you place some aluminum foil into the container with the vinegar, you'll clean up the silver immediately

When doing as experiment you do not change it by adding other objects. The copper and stainless steel (containing nickle) changed everything.

Cleaning silver with vinegar and salt. It is a mild type of pickle solution used by silversmiths.

What happens if I let it soak in a toothpaste mix bath? It's old and was left with food on it. I tried just scrubbing but it's stuck and my daughter wants to use it for her wedding

ABSOLUTLEY correct with the toothpaste crest HD worked better than arm & hammer. thxs for the vid.

Great work ⚘

Thanks for the video

Cool video!!

Using baking soda and that brush is one of the fastest ways to make your coins worthless. That brush leaves minute scratches that a coin dealer can see with his loop, magnifying glass, and that makes the coin worth about face value.

I use baking soda and water.

Is it silver or german silver? (alloy of zinc copper and nickel)

Heat up the vinegar to the temperature of a cup of coffee, and add about half a teaspoon of salt, stir it up, drop the silver into it, after about 20 minutes or so, the oxide should come off, including any scale on the metal. Works for me.

If you set the coins in the aluminum pan and pour salt over them with the vinegar, they get shiny real quick

I prefer to clean my numismatics on my benchtop electric buffer with some cutting agent. They come up better than new.

Try valve grinding compound and a broken toothpick. Then polish with toothpaste.

does vinegar dissolve other materials other than silver?

Just use with bicarbonate, salt and vinager. Use a bowl with allufoil and boil hot water and voila. Dont fprget to rinse in warm water and after that wipe it with a microfibercloth and clean it good.

Thank you Sir

Wow when i did that with my Morgan coins that didn't happen, they became cleaner. Then I soaked them in water to neutralize the acid.

Vinager with hydrogen poroxide and salt. Thats home made pickle. Works best warm

Thanks thats in detail

My grandmother used to use ciggarette ashes to polish silver...

Amazing video

Thank you....🦋

Interesting video thanks for sharing that. I prefer not to clean my constitutional silver coins but I know someone out is doing this. Just maybe they will take your advice and clean them respectfully without damaging our beautiful silver.

If you bought a 1957 Chevy 2 door Bel Aire with really bad paint on it would you repaint it to look brand new or would you drive around in a really expensive junk heap ? If some patine is desired it can be varied in grinding to what ever is desired. And then it can be finished to look natural in the polishing. Some coins just got so much crap on them you can't even read the words. Make look as new as desired.

Nice video!😎☕🥰

Got here looking for how to patina a silver chain. Guess I found my answer for that too😂

Ok but use the aluminum pan or sheet in your bowl Vinegar white Table salt Baking soda Swish and it’s fast! Leave to long the old silver can turn The coins pinkish so pay attention Rinse n wipe Works wonders on my coins found metal detecting at the beaches Thanks for your video!

I dipped my silver ring in vinegar for 24 hours, it is now tarnished. I tried aluminum, baking powder & salt method, its not working. Any method to reverse that? Kindly advice.

Add salt to the baking soda. And be sure to touch them when in the aluminium pan.

Vinegar + aluminium foil + salt works good for silver

GOOD JOB.

CLR works good too.(CALCIUM, LIME RUST CLEANER)

Toothpaste worked great. Thanks for the tip

I knew about the baking soda trick but not the toothpaste

Very informative