DIGGER27
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Ok, don't give me any grief about cleaning coins because I know all about that.
Sometimes, however, if they are so bad that you can't do any more harm, why not try?
This is about cleaning steel coated zinc war pennies because I have a lot of them and they are wrecked.
I found these in 4 rolls of pennies I got from the bank last year, and that was an exciting few days for me when I did.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=77670
Evidently, these were kept in a damp place for decades and when I first opened those rolls you couldn't even tell they were pennies, let alone steel wheats.
With a little tumbling they were a little better, but then I stopped and left them alone.
Still have them...
The other day I found a video on youtube that some guy posted that showed him cleaning a few steel pennies, not dug, that were a little rusty.
Mix 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of water...mix well and soak pennies for a few minutes and the rust should come off.
I tried it and it worked a little, but mine are so rusted that I didn't think anything would help.
By accident, one of the 4 pennies I put in the solution was left soaking in there for the last 24 hours and I just pulled it out and I was shocked!
This thing started out like this...
and now it looks like this...
Not bad, huh?
It sure looks better than most of the steel cents I see being sold on the wholesale coin sites out there, but it still looks normal to me, not 'cleaned" like they would if I used a brush or something harsh like that.
Still don't know what I am going to do with all of these things, but the first step is to clean them up and attempt to make them worth more than they were in that rusty condition.
Wish me luck!
Sometimes, however, if they are so bad that you can't do any more harm, why not try?
This is about cleaning steel coated zinc war pennies because I have a lot of them and they are wrecked.
I found these in 4 rolls of pennies I got from the bank last year, and that was an exciting few days for me when I did.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=77670
Evidently, these were kept in a damp place for decades and when I first opened those rolls you couldn't even tell they were pennies, let alone steel wheats.
With a little tumbling they were a little better, but then I stopped and left them alone.
Still have them...
The other day I found a video on youtube that some guy posted that showed him cleaning a few steel pennies, not dug, that were a little rusty.
Mix 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of water...mix well and soak pennies for a few minutes and the rust should come off.
I tried it and it worked a little, but mine are so rusted that I didn't think anything would help.
By accident, one of the 4 pennies I put in the solution was left soaking in there for the last 24 hours and I just pulled it out and I was shocked!
This thing started out like this...
and now it looks like this...
Not bad, huh?
It sure looks better than most of the steel cents I see being sold on the wholesale coin sites out there, but it still looks normal to me, not 'cleaned" like they would if I used a brush or something harsh like that.
Still don't know what I am going to do with all of these things, but the first step is to clean them up and attempt to make them worth more than they were in that rusty condition.
Wish me luck!
