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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25382891, member: 10461&quot;]Detector find, I presume.&nbsp; The environmental damage to it is pretty extreme and irreversible at this point.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if one were to remove the blackish encrustation, you&#039;d be left with a coin that has really rough surfaces.&nbsp; So since it&#039;s a problem coin either way, I&#039;d leave it as-is.&nbsp; Better a dug relic in its original &quot;relic&quot; state than a dug relic that&#039;s been messed with, I suppose.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now if <i>I</i> had dug that, back in the day, I might have tried electrolysis on it.&nbsp; Electrolysis would probably remove the black crustiness, but again, you&#039;d still be left with a pretty rough coin.&nbsp; I successfully removed some encrustation off a Spanish half-real I dug, once, using electrolysis.&nbsp; But I also accidentally &quot;burnt up&quot; the first large cent I ever dug- it did not respond well at all to electrolysis, since its surfaces were pretty unstable (advanced corrosion).</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless of all that, it IS still a very cool find.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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