No silvers but some odd balls halves and a BIG penny.

[GEOFF]

I said I'd stop CRH but I came right back...been silently doing half boxes....I am skunk patrolling.

I found these 4 oddballs from 8 boxes, do they worth more than $.50 each?

1. A hole puch chipped planchet half:

2. A 100 degree rotated half(its a fake, failed sound test and seamed so prolly worth $0.00):

3. A Silver looking Bicentennial with black rim(sound test says its a clad but is it silver?):

3. A 1967 half dollar sized Britannia penny:

Can some pro please tell me how to clean this bronze penny from personal experience? I intend to keep it in my silver dollar folder

 

[SeaninNH]

The rotated half is a magician's coin. You can squeeze one side of it and pop it open. If you notice on the back you can see a split around the inside of the rim.

The Britannia you can clean in some warm peroxide and a soft tooth brush. It's not worth anything, but it's a neat coin to have. I have a couple that I cleaned up just because I wanted to.
I actually soaked it in warm peroxide then made a warm peroxide and baking soda paste and worked the coin and it cleaned up nice.

Nice finds.

The half with the chunk taken out of it looks like someone took a drill to it.

The bicentennial is clad. If it ws silver it would have an S mint mark.

 

[GEOFF]

The rotated half is a magician's coin. You can squeeze one side of it and pop it open. If you notice on the back you can see a split around the inside of the rim.

The Britannia you can clean in some warm peroxide and a soft tooth brush. It's not worth anything, but it's a neat coin to have. I have a couple that I cleaned up just because I wanted to.
I actually soaked it in warm peroxide then made a warm peroxide and baking soda paste and worked the coin and it cleaned up nice.

Nice finds.

The half with the chunk taken out of it looks like someone took a drill to it.

The bicentennial is clad. If it ws silver it would have an S mint mark.

SeaningNH, do you mean room temperature hydrogen peroxide to clean the bronze penny?

 

[SeaninNH]

What I did was heat some peroxide in the microwave for 30 seconds then dropped in the coin. Once it stopped bubbling I took it out and scrubbed with a soft toothbrush. I did this a few times.

Then I made a paste out of baking soda and some of the peroxide and worked the coin with my fingers.

It will leave small scratches on the coin, but it's not valuble so I didn't care. It actually didn't hurt the coin that I can see.

This is after cleaning. It was as dirty as yours before I started working it.

 

[FreedomUIC]

Ten to Fifteen second soak in Acetone (Hardware grade, not fingernail polish remover) and it should lighten right up for you.
Using any type of paste will leave lines on the coin.

Make sure to rinse in Acetone again and then re-rinse the coin in Distilled water.

I have a couple of them as well.

 

[Generic_Lad]

Yep, the 1967 British Penny isn't worth anything, it is pretty much the most common year of pre-decimal pennies, and the last released for general circulation (there are pre-decimal coins dated 1970 for the farewell to the Pound/Shilling/Pence system proof set) There were 654,564,000 of the 1967 coins made. So feel free to experiment with cleaning it