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Valued Member
United States
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for the past 20 years or so hes hoarded pennies and put them in a giant coca cola bottle shaped bank, by the time he filled it all up it weighed around 50 pounds in all pennies, I told him I wanted to search for wheats as I used to when I was a kid.
and now this whole thing about having to keep copper pennies he couldve gotten a lot more money scrapping them than going to a bank to cash them in at face value
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Valued Member
 United States
339 Posts |
i just went through the household penny jar and found a very very corroded 1943 Wheat penny, possible steel and a 1945 Wheat penny and a 1953 10 francs coin |
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Valued Member
United States
310 Posts |
Well, you may have missed out on searching them, he didn't lose out on any money scraping them, as it's illegal to melt copper pennies at the moment.
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Valued Member
United States
339 Posts |
ok, good, and also, I kept that '43 penny in some lemon juice for an hour and took it out and the back got a lot cleaner and it turned out to be a steel wheat that was just very very very dirty, ill try it again to get the front of the coin a bit cleaner because it still look a little bit like copper on the front
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Valued Member
United States
339 Posts |
well, a simple magnet test concluded that the penny is a steel Wheat penny, nice find, I used to have a couple but I lost them years ago |
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Valued Member
United States
218 Posts |
if its a 1943 there's no question in my mind that's it steel sounds like some nice finds though
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Valued Member
United States
339 Posts |
yeah, not too bad considering I didnt have to go coin roll hunting or check my registers at work since I didnt have to work today, I'm thinking of going to a bank and buying a box of pennies, when you do that are you getting coins in circulation or would be getting a lot of mint rolls of shield cents?, id like to try my luck at finding more steels or wheats
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Stories like this remind me of a long time ago, at a place I worked, a co-worker told me his parents had been saving Dimes in a large bottle since he was born. It was supposed to be for a wedding present some day. He did get married and his parents took that jar to a bank, cashed it in, gave him the currency instead of the Dimes. There was over $1,200 in Dimes. And that was back in the 60's somewhere.  |
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New Member
United States
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I started putting pocket change cents in a 5 gal glass Sparklets bottle in 1978 and filled it in 1994. Back then I payed cash for everything so always had plenty of change. Had to use the ketchup bottle trick to get them out (butterknife).Whew!
I stowed them away in sealed liquor tins and maybe one of these days............
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Valued Member
United States
339 Posts |
most of those dimes were probably silver too, I wonder what kind of coins today we think are only worth face value but in the future be like silver coins and be worth a lot more, I see that copper pennies are doing the same
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New Member
United States
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ok, good, and also, I kept that '43 penny in some lemon juice for an hour and took it out and the back got a lot cleaner and it turned out to be a steel wheat that was just very very very dirty, ill try it again to get the front of the coin a bit cleaner because it still look a little bit like copper on the front
NO, please dont use lemon juice you will destroy the penny, I've succesfully cleaned coins using the method described in this guide http://reviews.ebay.com/Cleaning-co...000001263322 |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Maverick, the 43 was already heavily corroded when he started, it was already destroyed. He really couldn't hurt it and in this case may have actually helped it. After all which would you rather have a lump of iron oxide, or a cleaned but identifiable steel cent?
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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 I want to share a few bits of information that I got from some good sources in the field of cleaning coins. You should start with some necessary tools.
1. Brushes: a toothbrush, a plastic or fiber glass brush. A brass brush works the best.
2. Detail tools. Either a toothpick or a soft metal pick for cleaning between letters etc.
3. Cotton swabs for cleaning slightly dirty coins
4. containers for your solvents etc.
5. A good light is always nice Above is a quote from that cleaning advice maverick. "A brass brush works the best"    Skimming over it and seeing this was enough for me to discredit his entire opinion. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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1. Brushes: a toothbrush, a plastic or fiber glass brush. A brass brush works the best.
2. Detail tools. Either a toothpick or a soft metal pick for cleaning between letters etc.
3. Cotton swabs for cleaning slightly dirty coins
4. containers for your solvents etc.
5. A good light is always nice
Nice list. I would like to add 6. Bench grinder with fine wheel 7. Butane torches to get tar off coins 8. NitroGlycerine to blow dirt off coins 9. A piece of Radium to sanitize coins from handling. 10. And always use that drop method to tell what coins are made of. And must be done from a minimum of a 10 story building. Please don't take this serious. There are enough idiots posting methods of cleaning coins. I've always wondered if anyone posts somewhere on how to clean Egyptian Mummies.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Above is a quote from that cleaning advice maverick. "A brass brush works the best" Well technically he is right, brass brushes do a great job of getting the dirt off  Carl you forgot 11. a good sander to remove rust. 12. A nice polish at the end After all you want it looking its best |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Whilst at it why not melt the coin completely and cast a fresh one
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