I took your pic and then did a color inversion and adjusted the contrast. What I see is an 1816 - the first second and fourth digits are clear enough - it's that third digit thaits touchy - to me it looks like a 1.
I took your pic and then did a color inversion and adjusted the contrast. What I see is an 1816 - the first second and fourth digits are clear enough - it's that third digit thaits touchy - to me it looks like a 1.
Beauty! I imagine it is what it is (more cleaning will just remove detail, I suppose), but I'm going to leave it to Tom to tell you otherwise. Tom digs large cent every ten years and I am sure has learned the best processes!
Sledgehammer has always served me well in cleaning up copper coins. Knocks off dirt like a charm if you give 'er a good whack. Bit of a tradeoff though, the price for a clean coin is a pancake.
Sledgehammer has always served me well in cleaning up copper coins. Knocks off dirt like a charm if give 'er a good whack. Bit of a tradeoff though, the price for a clean coin is a pancake.