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 Canada
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It is a one cent coin. I can see an A and D in the word CANADA, making it 1937 and newer.
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Canada
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Canada
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Corrosion and scaling! Not Good!
Not Much hope for this one!
At this point it really doesn't matter which method of cleaning is used. Start mild and then get aggressive if need be.
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Canada
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I could see the D and A of Canada on it, therefore the design is between 1937 and 2011
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Australia
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The ancient coin guys throw these sort of items into an olive oil soak for a year.
Fill up a small pill bottle with olive oil, and drop the coin into it, and forget for a year.
In a lot of cases that hard inorganic skunge can then be taken off with a soft toothbrush. It is then possible to examine just what surface damage the coin has sustained. You might recover a good coin, you might not; at least it should be identifiable.
This is a method commonly used by archeologists for bronze coins taken fom find sites.
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Ummmm, if that's a Canadian penny from 1937-to-date, then I'd spend it and hope nobody asked any questions ...
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Canada
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I actually have an ugly coin collection. It contains some others like this, bent, corroded, or mutilated coins that I have found in circulation.
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Canada
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The only Canadian coins I've ever seen with that amount of deterioration are pennies 96-present. I have dug them out of the ground with my detector in that condition and I have seen them in rolls (don't ask how they ended up in there). In my opinion, our current pennies aren't worth the effort to mint.
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Canada
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Its ugly and will always be so.
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Hey... I lost that coin in the Winnipeg 1950 flood... and have been looking for it ever since.  |
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Hey... I lost that coin in the Winnipeg 1950 flood... and have been looking for it ever since. Is this a random made-up joke or is it based on a real story? |
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Pillar of the Community
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Hey... I lost that coin in the Winnipeg 1950 flood... and have been looking for it ever since. Is this a random made-up joke or is it based on a real story? |
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Canada
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Lol, reminds me of the time my sister found $20 on the floor and my older brother told her it was his (he was lying of course) and gave her $2 for finding it and he took it.
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If you look at it really close, you can see Gumby's face
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