). I need some help with identification, value (if any), and cleaning/conservation techniques for the few that are beat up. I've placed them in a gallery called Unknown Coins for viewing since there are more than just one or two pictures.
Posted 07/19/2007 02:19 am
The German and Belgian WWII period ones are made of zinc, a highly reactive metal (it's the same stuff that's in the core of your post-1982 1 cent coins); there's not terribly much you can do to these coins that won't make them look worse.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
then have a coin that's been cleaned. It just seems wrong and evil all at the same time 
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