my silver is orange after tumbling ?

Tom_in_CA

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Are you mixing the silver coins with clad? If so, copper can cause the silver coins to get that orange hue, perhaps.
 

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If I read your post right you kept the silver separate from the copper, which you should do.
You may have tumbled them to long, I give mine a 15 min tumble and their good enough to go to the bank.
 

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Pennies with pennies only

Quarters dimes and nickels go together.

Why would you tumble silver?
I don't think you mean silver, I think you mean clad. Silver is pre 1964
 

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I mixed pennies and clad once, it'll rub the wrong way and turn orange. I tumble pennies by themselves and unless crud is caked on stuff, I tumble 5 minutes and that's it
 

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I have a vibratech type "tumbler" and use crushed corn cob and walnut shell media. About an hour is what I usually do. A little added brasso helps really cruddy ones. But, yep, putting copper colored clad and silver clad will definately color your silver colored coins. Monty
 

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it was clad coins only and no pennies ran it about 45 minutes with dawn vinegar and water does it need something else like gravel or sand to clean the coins and get rid of the orange ?
 

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In my area, some of the coins that are found in clay soil turn orange. After tumbling for an hour or so, some of them stay orange. I just dump them in a coin counetr like that. I don't think tumbling is making yours orange, they may be that way out of the ground, stained like that.
 

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