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New Member
United States
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Hello, as my forum introduction indicated not that familiar with coins and am slowly going thru a bag of foreign coins. First things I pulled out were the worst of the bunch. Trying to figure out if these are worth saving. I understand they are modern and common. I do not know what is all over them but I know enough not to clean them. Any advice going foward? Can these coins be preserved? or are they common enough to not worry about it? They actually look worse in person then they came out in the pictures. thank you.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Gibby01:  to the CCF !Can coins pictured be saved (included in a collection) ? - Yes. To be restored / preserved ? No, - not worth the effort. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
6514 Posts |
Welcome to the Forum! You've come to a phenomenal place to Share and Learn.
Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 |
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Valued Member
Uruguay
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
735 Posts |
Yes, don't worry about these. Even if it were possible to improve them to any degree the effort and/or expense wouldn't be worth the trouble as they would still have no value.
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New Member
 United States
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thank you everyone for the information.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Appears they may have spent some time in a liquid, which eventually evaporated/congealed/hardened. Might be fun to pick the worst and let it soak in 100% acetone (in a sealed glass container) for a few days.
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Moderator
 Australia
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They look like typical "flood damage" coins - which I've seen all too often here in Brisbane, Australia, where occasional river flooding has destroyed many a coin collection.
Are they worth saving? Mostly not. They all have the "blue-green death" of copper corrosion, as well as the mud or whatever the brown stuff is. Whatever you do to the coin to clean it, you will almost certainly end up with a "cleaned coin" that every collector will consider ugly.
They are only "worth cleaning" if you are interested in improving your coin cleaning skills, and need some "worthless but difficult" coins to practice on.
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
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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instead of asking IF we could, we need to be asking if we SHOULD
sorry, loved Jurassic Park, but it rings true in this case as well. simply not worth fixing/saving unless they have sentimental value.
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New Member
United States
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thanks, maybe i'll try the acetone as a an experiment to see how it works out.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Personally, if they were coins not yet in my collection, I'd give them a quick clean with soapy water and then acetone before adding to collection. Hopefully one day some better examples will come your way and the originals can be turfed.
Edited by David Graham
02/03/2023 7:25 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Farly common coins so I wouldn't spend too much time trying to save them. Hard to fix environmental damage on copper.
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