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pennybright Valued Member United States 117 Posts	Posted 03/05/2007 6:41 pm As my experience has taught me, finding errors in pocket change is this - it's usually the cruddiest looking coin that will hold the error of greatest type. Any ideas about this, and what to do, etc.? (Personally, I use mineral oil on these, this and time will give a cleaner, but not unstained vision of what is there. Lesser ones go back to the store/bank. More prominent errors, with stains, have a separate altogether bag I call the dirty ones, until I figure out what to do with them). So - I am asking the question here - what to do with the dirty ones? As always, I appreciate the collective thoughts and time given to these subjects. Report this Post to the Staff

josie Valued Member Ireland 498 Posts	Posted 03/06/2007 06:32 am Glad to hear you dip the dirty ones on mineral oil,Im just planning I will also wait for the expert reply. Report this Post to the Staff
garylcsr Pillar of the Community United States 1952 Posts	Posted 03/06/2007 6:53 pm Mineral oil is good to soak coins in I have never used it but only because I don't mess with dirty coins lol. I will usually just run warm water over the coin and then dab it dry DO NOT RUB but if you are holding really dirty coins like coated in mud I would rinse them and if that don't work then soak them. I am not positive on how long to soak them but I would not leave them in it more than 30 days. but I could be wrong on that as I have never done it. Gary Report this Post to the Staff
Errorcoins Member United States 703 Posts	Posted 03/06/2007 7:10 pm The Grade of error coin is less important than the error on the coin. In fact I just bought a very cool PCGS Graded error coin and spent over a hundred thinking the grade was MS64, but in fact I was bidding on the error itself and not grade. Well to my surprise, after I won the auction I noticed It was graded MS 66. by PCGS (on an error coin that's a pretty high grade), wow and cool, LOL!!!! So I guess what I'm saying is buy the coin not the slab. error Edited by Errorcoins 03/06/2007 7:12 pm Report this Post to the Staff
coppercoins Pillar of the Community United States 7629 Posts	Posted 03/07/2007 12:42 am Frankly, many of the coins I have seen posted here as errors (because they look odd) are corroded, dirty, pitted, or otherwise disfigured because of environmental damage, purposeful maltreatment, or accidental fire and aren't worth anything over face value. They aren't errors at all. Report this Post to the Staff
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