occy
Full Member
- Oct 21, 2012
- 112
- 42
- Detector(s) used
- CTX, Excal sword
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Before I get yelled at, I know it is never smart to clean any valuable coins. The coins I am looking for suggestions on were given to me, recently. They don't seem to be incredibly valuable, so I was thinking of cleaning a couple of them so they can be viewed and enjoyed a little easier. The coins I inherited were in a glass jar that was kept in a dresser drawer. The house flooded with salt water and the water got into the jar of coins. There were copper, silver, and nickel coins in the jar. That created a mess. The silver coins were not in too bad shape to read, so I made sure there were no key dates. There were a couple and I kept them seperate, while I lightly tumbled the rest. I will post the older silver and nickel ones later and wait for advice on what I should do to them. Here are the couple of coppers I would like to be able to see better. Soak them in olive oil?
Flying eagle cent:
1809 Half cent:
Flying eagle cent:
1809 Half cent: