Not bad for a buck?

Found this little guy in a bargain bin at some coin shop I recently found. Looked like a goner but but a feeling it had some potential, so I got it home and used some soup , water and a light scrub with a tooth brush. End result is pretty nice. Does anyone have any advice to get it looking a bit better or should I leave it alone? thanks !

 

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Now there will be a number of folks that say (or scream) "Ahhhh...you cleaned it!", but given the amount of green death on the coin to start, I'd say you've done well.

Given that you have a close to dead coin with only a buck on the line, you may want to try a trick used with ancients and some dug coins. Give it a good soak (read "a few days") in olive oil. Olive oil is a mild acid so it will take another layer off and hopefully loosen some of the remaining grime in the process.

 

That's pretty cool. And to make it better this coin is a good strike and has wonderful detail.

It's worth chemicallly stabilizing, although I don't know how.

Ruben

 

Actually that's not bad. I wouldn't mind cleaning totally damaged or corroded copper coins as long as you don't harshly clean them. Most definately you did a good job there!

 

Wow!!!!! Nice work in cleaning that thing. Nice pickup.

 

Nice find! I would agree, soak for a couple days in olive oil.

 

Nice job restoring it, great coin for a $.

 

Great pickup !
Theres some good details there for $1 !
You've done a fine job cleaning it up so far.
I'm sure some of the suggestions given above will bring it along a little further.

 

I am very surprised no one has called him evil for cleaning the coin.

 

nah, with the original crud that was on the coin, no harm done.

 

its currently sitting in olive oil for the next week , Ill keep it updated if there is any progress

 

Ok I Did some finishing touches on the coin and I'm pretty pleased with it. I noticed something else about the coin that may be interesting.The bottom part of the reverse design seems to have some sort of die crack running along it. It almost looks like a double die. let me know what you guys think!

 

In this situation, I think the coin is better now, before cleaning it was a worthless blob, now it is a cleaned flying eagle cent . A " good " cleaning in my opinion.

 

just to let you no.i shipped the sgs coin out today.a lady from coincommunity.com bought it.0 feedbacks.payed instant with pay pal.i dont no whats up.no contact.anyway.am going back to work next wensday.will be back in 30 days.i will get out another one of these sgs gems to show off on ebay.be looking for it.tell you buddys on coin talk all is good.i looked at your website.looks great.i love hot food.but it hates me.hartburn!!!!! some times its worth the suffering.thanks for the fun.dennis

 

Am I missing something, theydidntmakeit???


PS. That's a sweet coin OP. Only thing that would have been better is if you found it in a roll o fpennies.

 

Me thinks he posted in the wrong thread.

 

Wow, not bad! I think you did pretty good. Just goes to show you, you can find some good stuff in those bargain bins, just got to know how to look. Nice job. :thumb:

Phoenix

 

thats a really good deal for $1 even if it was dirty!:high5: you did a nice job cleaning that!

 

Not a doubled die, but Longacre doubling. Not worn dies but sharp new ones.