AIIIIEEE!!! GREEN SKUNK!!!! 2/1/07 Box.....gee I am sooo excited....not...

[MalteseFalcon]

A whole lotta nothing this go-round.

So I took a picture of the dreaded GREEN KENNEDYS!!!!:

 

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[Immy]

Boooo! St. Paddy's Day isn't for another six weeks, tell those green JFK's to hit the road!

 

[fiatboy]

Ahhh! Attack of the Greenies!!!

 

[thurmownator]

A whole lotta nothing this go-round.

So I took a picture of the dreaded GREEN KENNEDYS!!!!:

I know that cleaning coins is typically not something you want to do, but there are times for less valuable ( potentially bullion coins) where removing that bluish green crud will allow you to verify the date of a coin.

Anyone have any tried and true recipes (warm soapy water does nothing) you could suggest ?

Thanks much.

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

There is always the tumbler.

 

[MalteseFalcon]

A good belt sander and a vice always do wonders!

 

[prizm II]

Check out the "Cleaning & Preservation" Forum here at TreasureNet. There is a ton of info to learn by reading different Forums here. I came to learn about Metal Detecting and found Coin Roll Hunting. The internet is the Library!!!

 

[MalteseFalcon]

And of course, in this case, there was nothing whatsoever worth saving.
I am assuming that they originally were all in the same roll, as there were quite a few overall out of this box that had some kind of greenish corrision like that.

I have had several boxes where lotsa halves had similar toning, discoloring, etc.

 

[goldinmypan]

OH MY GOD!!! Its the green creeping crud. YOU DIDN'T TOUCH THOSE DID YOU. Oh well your OBIT will read 'another CRHer bites the dust.

 

[thurmownator]

Better yet, I've got some (likely bullion) halves in soaking WD40...to see if I can retrieve a date and/or mintnmark

 

[coinlover]

what causes that green on them?

 

[RaptorSE]

Haha, a few of those look just like the ones I rolled up and cashed in about 2 years ago. Metal detecting
finds...and they were ugly

Probably not, but it could be where the absolutely horrible ones come from... the ground does bad bad things
to non-silver coinage.

Hoping you get lots of shiney silver next time !

Good luck !