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agbonanza
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Yes, you read it correctly...a year. A year or so ago, I found what I thought was a coin covered with crud while metal detecting. I found it while hunting around what I am pretty sure is a foundation to a small house. It was about the size of a U.S. dime, but I could not see what it was. I took it home and cleaned it with a mild detergent and soft bristled brush, but no luck at all in figuring out what it was. I soaked it in olive oil since then. Every few weeks or so I would flip it over in the oil. Well, this weekend I decided to try and clean it again. Some of the crud came off and I could tell it was a coin of some sort...I decided to take the plunge and I built an electrolysis. After it "cooked" for a while, I took it out and cleaned it somemore with baking soda and a soft bristled brush. Much to my surprise it is a 1941 German 5 pfennig coin....complete with swastika. Here are a couple of pix that I took with my digital camera.
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