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The answer is yes. Especially with error collecting. Some lessons are best learned by doing...
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United States
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Yes, ScottK, this is the correct forum for cleaning or preservation discussions
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Funny that I came across this thread. I was working in a metal fab shop at the time. It was lunch time at work years ago when a guy I worked with came back from lunch early. I am in the shop when he came in and grabbed a torch and lit it up.I go over to see what he was doing and he has a pile of pre 1967 Canadian quarters .I asked him what was up. He says "I am going to melt these down". I tried to to stop him by trying to offer to buy them from him to no avail.Anyway after he melted them together he gave them to me and this is what they looked like .    Edited by T1Steel
03/26/2015 08:31 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Worst I have ever done was put a penny on the tracks. To cheap to put anything else.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Forgive me, the first of those two pictures looks a bit like a prarie cake.  I hope it isn't. Now, it is now a bit harder to prove that that chunk of silver is all 800 silver. Worth keeping as a curio silver paperweight, at eighty four and one half grammes. |
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Australia
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I tried to clean an ancient Roman bronze coin of Constantius 11 (A.D. 337-361) a few years ago, by heating it, in an attempt to spall of some encrustations with differential expansion. It didn't work. In fact, when I cooled it rapidly by dropping it in cold water, it completely disintegrated into tiny black particles.   Total and instant loss of the coin. I won't do that again ! |
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Pretty sure as a kid I squeezed a cent in my dad's vise once or twice.
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United States
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There's a few good reasons not to do this, most importantly numismatics is about preserving coins, not destroying them.  I just never had any inclination to destroy a coin. Call me weird.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Call me weird for wanting to?  I wouldn't do that now, but whatever, not a big deal either way. Some of us didn't know any better at the time, I suppose. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This post reminds me of one similar some time back. Many stories of how coins have been destroyed. Aside from my Chem experiments, I also put coins on RR tracks, tried to throw a Half Dollar across a river, placed coins on top of fire crackers, buried in wet concrete, etc.
One of my favorite dumb things was when I saw an add for so called Original Black Forest Hunting knives. The add claimed they would go through a Half Dollar. I purchased several of them and all they did was break trying to go through a Half Dollar.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hey Carl, It was probably a 21-D Walking Liberty.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Hey Carl, It was probably a 21-D Walking Liberty. Might have been but that also might have been in 1921 so not worth much. |
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United States
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I've taken quarters and soaked them in pee for 72 hours, put them in the oven, tossed them in a campfire, put them in the microwave, burnt them with my dads blowtorch, had them ran over by a train, had them ran over by a car and much more
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I experiment every time I go to Disneyland or on RV trips and it only costs me $0.51 but the results are always the same just different patterns... an elongated cent!
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United States
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Cascade, you ever smashed a Zlincoln? I'm curious to see what the cladding does.
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