2006 silver and best coin

Foiled Again

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Happy New Year:

Here is some pics of most of the silver coins I found last year. I think I have more somewhere but not a lot.

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None of them have much value other than bullion so I shined them up. The 1968 dimes are only 50% silver but the older coins are 80% silver.

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Not finding much silver coinage. The dfx is very positive when it sees silver so my best guess is that I am not looking in the right places. Have to start researching and expand into other areas. Maybe I spent too much time picking up clad coins. I found a total of $91.54 in new coins.

Here is the oldest coin I found in 2006 and also the oldest coin so far. Its been soaking in olive oil since June and I think it is as clean as I can get it without ruining it. Its a 1909 Canadian large cent, about the size of a half dollar coin.

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Here is the back side of it. I doubt if it is worth much but it was fun finding something that old. I could barely read the date when I pulled it out of the dirt.

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Any ideas on how to get the rest of the gunk off of this coin without destroying it?

Thanks for looking,

Foiled Again
 

Trash Digger

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Nice finds. You might try soaking the cent in hot hydrogen peroxide, and then very gently scrub it. I use a toothbrush on the clad stuff and pennies I find, but that might be too harsh for a nice coin like that cent.

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Sweet canadian silver!

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