A Quote Of The Best Advice By Buckleboy

[stefen]

In response to a post asking for advice of a dug coin (or any relic, for that matter)...

"When you dig it--do NOT field clean it....The date will still be there when you get home.

The coin has waited patiently underground for a hundred years for you to find it.

Don't dig it up just to destroy it."

[DigginThePast]

Perfectly sane logic to me.

Should be a bunch of people to argue it though.

[BuckleBoy]

I am a patient man.

To wait to investigate a coin until I get home, that's like the fun of digging it twice. 8) And it's much safer for the coin, too.

I have been unhappy before even when I rubbed a LC in the field. Then I get home and it is a different Color on the places I rubbed.



Best to use all of your time in the field to hunt and then clean the finds at home.

[kuger]

I cringe everytime I see someone smear there fingers across a coin,as soon as they dig it.I have been eaten up on HERE for advising not to do that.I am with B.Boy....leave it in the ground if your not going to treat it with respect and preserve it properly!

[BuckleBoy]

I cringe everytime I see someone smear there fingers across a coin,as soon as they dig it.I have been eaten up on HERE for advising not to do that.I am with B.Boy....leave it in the ground if your not going to treat it with respect and preserve it properly!

Yep. There is a lot of that old "I found it and I'll do whatever I want with it" approach around here. I think it is just the byproduct of being arrogant and stubborn. No one pays honest money for something and then turns around and intentionally destroys it simply because they can. The fact that something is found rather than bought is no excuse. Value is value, monetary or otherwise. That item will end up in someone else's possession eventually. One day, folks' grandkids might wish they hadn't field cleaned all of their silver coin finds.