An ugly 1935 mercury dime. 3 wheaties two of em are pretty nice. 16, 19. One lone 18-- Indian head. I need an old home site where the coins come outta the ground in nice condition. Jim
those are ugly, but they're still cool! i went to a park today also. we were invited to my mom's friend family reuniun and we went. since i didn't know anybody there, i detected all day! all i found was 2 dimes, a 1960D nickel, and a round piece of metal that i though was a ring. still a fun day.
Wow. The yucky-lookin Merc surprises me. One thing I love about silver is that it comes outta the ground lookin as good as the day it was dropped. This has been my year for silver dimes - found 5-6 Mercs and 6-7 silver Roosies. HH, Wally
I would wash all of those pieces abit, and use a wire brush with blunt points (that won't scratch) on those cents.
I clean my detecting finds, unless they are exceptionally rare. I've cleaned my walker, sliver dimes, buffs, wheats, silver Washingtons. Because none of those would be worth much more than melt anyway, so I figure, might aswell make 'em look nice. I wouldn't clean gold or rare silver or copper, but I think that cleaning those amazing silver coins makes the find all the more great, when you look at something that looks brand new and think 'wow, someone dropped this 40, 50, 60 even 100 years ago'. Baking soda works well on silver!
