How should I clean the dirt and stuff off of my coins I find buried in the ground. Just got done metal detecting and found some pennies. 1 from 1937, 1951, and idk what the other one is. Any suggestions on how I should clean them? Without doing damage?
Depends...however long it takes for the dirt to come off. Just don't scrub them too much though TBH, I don't know how much it matters since what you are describing are most likely common wheat cents.
Agree with water, but would start with a couple of day-long soaks in tap water before moving to distilled.
The two cents you found are not worth much, except perhaps as a memory of your enjoyment in finding them, so cleaning won’t really affect their value.
Ok thanks. And they are so caked in dirt that they could have any kind of error or anything, that's the main reason I want to clean them. And for future reference. And because it's my 1st find metal detecting since I was a kid
Probably have some environmental damage from being in the ground which would negate any value anyways.
Just remember, rarities are rarities because they're rare. Being buried for decades doesn't make it any more likely to be a rarity -- it just makes it more likely to be decades old.
Right. But wouldnt know unless we look. I'm sure not all rarities are found and kept. I would say 90 percent of the world would throw a rarity away without even looking at it
