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Couldn't have been '76, you were with The Sons Of Liberty then

 

Thanks to all of you for the good advice in this thread. It reminded me that i had a jar of Ezest and some junk silver (damaged by a flood) to practice on. After a bit of practice, I was able to save a desirable 1 oz silver coin (damaged in the same flood) without damaging it. I wish I'd thought to take before and after pictures.

 

Man, I knew everything was slowing down as I got older, but I always thought memory loss was the one thing that would speed up.

 

Let’s see the after!

 

Here you go!
The coin was in a plastic holder, on edge, with Elizabeth's head facing down. Rising flood water submerged the bottom 1/4 of the coin, and it must've percolated in that nasty water for a couple of days before the water receded. When we found it, there was a ghastly brown stripe covering the affected area. When I dipped it in EZ-est, I ol;y dipped the top half of the coin for 10 seconds and

 

[QUOTE="Dtort, post: 24668540, member: 113973"]Here you go!
The coin was in a plastic holder, on edge, with Elizabeth's head facing down. Rising flood water submerged the bottom 1/4 of the coin, and it must've percolated in that nasty water for a couple of days before the water receded. When we found it, there was a ghastly brown stripe covering the affected area. When I dipped it in EZ-est, I ol;y dipped the top half of the coin for 10 seconds and[/QUOTE]
(accidentally posted b4 finishing)
never dipped the lower half. You can see the difference between the two halves, but most importantly, the brown stripe was GONE. It's not perfect like before, but I had written it off as bullion.

 

And as for the reverse, you can see where the brown stripe was at the word "horse". And there's damage under the tail where the coin had not been dipped yet.
So now, today, I have dipped the whole coin for five seconds and spot treated the word " horse" with a q-tip dipped in EZ-est. You can see that improvement continues...

I may continue carefully working on the other bad areas, or may leave well enough alone. Like I said, it was ruined before, and now, in-hand, it is beautiful again.

 

Hmm. "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink"( or something like that).