I "Found" My V Nickel Under the Rust.....

[Garrett424]

I found my first 1899 "V Nick" a week ago and finally got around to cleaning it this morning.
It was in awful shape and VERY rusted from the location.

Before:



After:



I actually used an SOS pad on it for about 10 minutes per side. It's still badly pitted as I expected it would be but I'm not worried. It's not a key date and was already toasted.
I just wanted to actually see it since it's my first as well as experiment a bit. I don't think the SOS did nearly as much damage as I expected it might which kinda' surprised me a bit. I'm totally cool with the outcome.

I also have some pretty nice ones in my collection already and I was fully prepared to ruin it worse than it was before I started.
I'm also not recommending this method to anyone and I can't say if I'll do it again.
If you try it you do so at your own risk. If you ruin a coin don't blame me. You have been warned.

But, this was actually my first "find" of the day before I went out hunting.

Thanks for looking and HH.

 

[BuckleBoy]

I actually found it inside an old cave where an Indian woman lived and DIED!!
Pretty neat place. I've found all kinds of random things there including a 1944 War Nickel. Even though it's 35% silver it too is covered in cave muck. I'm thinkin' I'll give that one the SOS treatment as well. it should shine up real nice after 20 minutes of elbow grease.

It's the one on the far left:

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The dirt there is SO nasty. It's black as coal, very damp and apparently, highly corrosive. You can see from the nickel on the right what that dirt does to coins. That one's a 1940.

Dirty or not, I Like 'em.

On the silver war nickel, use the baking soda and aluminum foil method! Works far better without abrasives!