Silver #2 for 2010

[ArkieBassMan]

Hunted a house built in the early teens today. $1.72 in clad, a couple of tokens, 6 wheaties (45-S, 57-D, 58-D - other 3 are as yet barely unreadable. Hopefully a little olive oil soak will remedy that.), and a 1954 Rosie. Gonna hit it again tomorrow.

[72cheyenne]

Silver is always good to find. Try soaking your wheaties in hot peroxide. I've seem to have good results with this technique.

[ArkieBassMan]

I've tried hot peroxide without much success. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. How long do I soak? Do I just wipe them off after soaking or scrub them with a toothbrush or maybe even someting else? Do I repeat the process several times? These wheaties that came out of a yard are NOWHERE near as corroded as the ones that I find in agricultural fields (I suspect the fertilizers and/or chemicals the farmers use are DEATH to a penny). Most of the time I can just barely make out a portion of Lincoln's bust. Have found a few that I can't even make that out. Any suggestions for these? Would a tumbler even dent this much corrosion? For the most part I am against cleaning coins, but I don't see how it could possibly hurt a penny that is so corroded you can't make out a single number or word on it. A cleaned 1909 -S VDB would have to be worth more than an unrecognisable date penny.

Also trying another method I read about on here somewhere. Soaked a paper towel in boiled olive oil. The pennies were placed on the towel and the towel folded over. This was weighted down. After a week or so when the paper towel is removed, all the gunk will supposedly stick to the paper towel. I'll let you know how well this works.