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Moderator
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I like that idea. They do not have to be good, just good enough to spark an interest.
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Pillar of the Community
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Unless there are any that you need for your collection (and as you said, these are all common and easily replaced), I would say dump them into circulation for $12. The odds that a collector if copper bullion would want corroded coins is pretty small, and no collector would pay more than face for damaged, common wheats. You could roll up some of them in an old, beaten-up wrapper and spend it, if you wanted to turn some heads and spark some interest in the hobby! Or you could roll some up in an old wrapper, slip a Mercury dime and a common IHC on either end and sell it on ebay for $25 each  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I really don't care about having a cleaned coin. Their end result will be just something to put on the bottom of my safe to add more weight and as a novelty. I just wanting something I can run my hands through and my hands not green if possible or know they are turning to dust
I will post a picture when I get a chance of what I don't mind them looking like.. They lost except as ballast or maybe spending them which I prefer not to. I'd a good idea looking through them again. It's so sad since they all seem to be mostly from 1910-1930's.
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Pillar of the Community
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Do you guys think their would be any way to get them to look this good as this hideous cleaned cent? That's what I want to keep them as weight. I was surprised how decent it look in a photo. It's as ugly and as sin and I found it in a penny roll like that. Basically I want it non green and some of the orginal details showing with the vergitis arrested.   Edited by Bertensgrad
05/07/2015 3:20 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Seal up the box and sell it on ebay as "unsearched time capsule full of old coins!" (Kidding of course) |
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Pillar of the Community
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I also interested in what to do since I'm taking up metal detecting and I want to keep all the wheats I find. I want them like trophies :). I might do better in my area since the soil so alkaline and wet. These came from a few hundred miles away in a vastly different soil type.
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Pillar of the Community
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Ok I experimented with a handful of them and this is the best three that came out of it. I froze them in water then put it out in the hot summer like day. I then took them inside and rubbed some hand soap into them. Should I expect similar results if I placed them in a rock tumbler? I think they would spend but if I kept them in a nice environment away from moisture humidity will they keep like this or would the verdigris come back?  Edited by Bertensgrad
05/07/2015 5:58 pm
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They actually look a lot better than I expected. A nice educational experiment, for sure. I am also surprised to see those teen dates. Nice.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Atleast 50% of them are 1909-1929 it's why I'm so sad and want to keep them even in a clean state. It must had been where he was digging.
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They certainly look better than the did. I say keep at it. |
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Pillar of the Community
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I seeing this as practice from when I metal detect at my grandpas farm. I have it pretty much where his old house burnt down in 1964. It was a old farmhouse about a hundred years old when it burnt down when my dad was a kid. They built a new house there but like forty feet away and now it's just lawn.
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Bedrock of the Community
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What does freezing in water do?
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Pillar of the Community
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I don't know if it does anything more then just soak it. I'm playing with rapid freezing and baking inside a car on the dashboard. I'm hoping the metal shrinks and expands at a different rate of the copper salts and crud on it. It's atleast getting rid of the dust. I heard of stories of it working. Right now on the first freezing pass I have a 20% success rate. I figure that I'm not running too much of a risk of one shattering.
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05/07/2015 6:45 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Hm found a 1909 with a super light VDB. I tried to photograph it but it's not showing up but if you tilt it just right you can just make it out. It's a pretty caked one though and being light on it isn't working. I might get some verdicare and try it out on it.
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05/07/2015 8:44 pm
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Nice find. That one would be worth it. Let us know how it turns out.
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