Should I pick the scale off?
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bruinvikes
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Pour a small amount of olive oil in a bowl, place the coin in there and leave it alone for a few weeks. After a few weeks has passed you could pick at it with a tooth pick. DO NOT get impatient about it, just let it set in the oil as long as it takes. That coin isn't going anywhere, it's yours now.
Mud-puppy
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Thats a great find!
If it were me, I'd swallow it, in a few days, early am...I'd drop the Wifes spaghetti strainer into the toilet, and let things take it course...hell, go ahead and gobble up a bunch of rotten discolored clad while you are at it, slug down a 2 litre 7up and give us the report in a few days...just for sake of conversation and coin cleaning efficiency methods...we are all here to learn..
Mud
If it were me, I'd swallow it, in a few days, early am...I'd drop the Wifes spaghetti strainer into the toilet, and let things take it course...hell, go ahead and gobble up a bunch of rotten discolored clad while you are at it, slug down a 2 litre 7up and give us the report in a few days...just for sake of conversation and coin cleaning efficiency methods...we are all here to learn..
Mud
gscott12250
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That's great I'm dying over here.great find Matt it was alot of fun. Next time we both will get one.
Greg
Ron 71
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That's a beauty, Congrats! If you decide to try Mud's method of cleaning you might test it out on a wheatie first. 
Gimmie The Loot
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Awesome LC! I had an 1824 until I tried to clean the scale off - now it is dateless. The crud was holding the date on.
METALMANIAC-NY
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Stop right there! Nice find! Further cleaning will lose more detail rather than improve. IMO that "crust" is your detail. HH!
Agree with the other posters... found out the hard way about the "crust"
Chefjuan
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I just dug the same large cent in slightly worse condition and it's in slightly worse condition because my little bro who I was showing it too started picking the scale off. DONT DO IT! like they said. Oil it and wait and then gently rub with q-tip or pick at with tooth pick....
