1925 Canadian penny

[flash]

I found a 1925 Canadian Penny last year.It was not worn at all ,but was stained a black or a dark color.I'm sure all know what I am talking about.

I tried to clean it wt everything I could think of.I got on the internet and found a site suggesting to use tabasco sauce.I tried it on a wheat penny and it worked pretty good.

So I tried it on the Canadian Penny ,at first it seemed to be working ,or cleaned it making it bloochy.Applied some more sauce and it completly ruined the penny.You could hardly read what it was when I was done.

I don't think it was worth much but I liked it.I gave it away.(see my cache story below)

Here is a before pic, don't have a after picture.LESSON LEARNED.

 

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[dneyedli@res1.mts.net]

Actually, the 1925 penny is a semi-key date and lists for $30 to $60 (looking at the photo of the condition).
U.S. wheaties give a different signal on my detector and are not the same composition as Can. pennies.
1925 Canadian one cent: .955 copper, .030 tin, .015 zinc.
ONLY USE WATER TO CLEAN DIRT OFF COPPER. The coin looks nice in the pic. and did not need to be cleaned (from a collector's point of view).
Nice find anyway.
Dave.

 

[Thonolan]

Last year, I tried tabasco sauce on a couple of wheat pennies- with truly awful results. I pretty much ruined both of them.

 

[flash]

Thats my luck,it was worth $30-$60.It really was in good shape.In hind sight I wish I would have never touched it.

 

[coinshooter]

Bummer! Mistakes are how we learn not to do things again (at least some of us!) I can think of many nice coins I have scratched by being to ambitious or just thinking that I had a piece of junk and being in a hurry to get it out so I could move on to the next target. If you want to try anything like this again, I would suggest you use a good long soak in olive oil, it will not ruin anything and will remove dirt and crud without any damage to the coin. Don't rub it when you pull it out, just pat the oil off it with some paper towels.
Another way that works the best for fast cleaning results without any damage to a coin is the following:
Get some "Arm and Hammer Super Washing Soda" at the store.
Heat some water to boiling in a tea kettle
Get a plastic square tupperware or similar container
Put a flat (non-wrinkled) piece of aluminum foil in the bottom of the container.
Place your coin(s) to be cleaned flat on the aluminum foil.
(Only coins of the same metal should be done together).
Pour in your boiling water slowly until the coins are covered by an inch or two.
Pour the Super washing soda directly on top of the coins and around them somewhat generously, but not to the point of covering the whole bottom (It will not hurt the coins to put this stuff right on them, but just for your own satisfaction try it on some coins you don't care about first.
If there are pits in a coin it may bring these out more, but this just means they were there already).
Leave the coins in the solution until the water cools.
Replace the foil, turn the coins over and repeat the process with the other side.
I have found this works really good with coins in all conditions.
Have fun with it!

 

[coinshooter]

Did you try out this method? 8)

 

[flash]

No I have not tried it.I would like to though.I don't have any Arm and Hammer Super Washing Soda.I need to get some.

I have been using Hydrogen Peroxide(HP) for pennies.Seems to work very well.I left a wheat in it overnight to see what would happen.It started to take the finish off .Don't do that!!! But I found if you let it set in HP for 10 mins or so then wipe it down,then repeat this.It does a good job.

I did this with 2 IH pennies I found last week.I posted some pics in todays finds of them before HP and here a pic after I cleaned them with HP.