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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;usmc60, post: 2407257, member: 76739&quot;]Sir everything you&#039;re saying is correct. And I totally agree with you on clean coins. But unfortunately you run across coins that you cannot even tell if there coins they are in such bad shape. I receive one of those coins in a bag of wheats, at least I assumed it was a coin, it had so much corrosion and dirt on it you could not tell what it was it looked like it had been buried for hundred years. And if you decided to scrap it you would not even get the going price because it was so badly corroded. This coin I felt was definitely a candidate for the hot soapy water treatment, this particular coin it took me three days of soaking to get it to look like what it looks like now. And like I said I wish I would&#039;ve taken a photo before so I would be able to show it like the one I have now the afterwords. Now you can read the date and at least see what kind of coin it is all I know is whoever gets my collection and looks at this 1838 cent at least knows it&#039;s a penny and not some clump of metal with encrusted dirt that you couldn&#039;t tell. Ask yourself which would you rather have ?And if were going to get into the cleaning we need to go over to the chat form, because that&#039;s another conversation in itself. Like the US Central America all the coins recovered from it and cleaned, slab graded and sold for top dollar. Like I said that&#039;s a whole new topic.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie24" alt=":blackalien:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />\V/[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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