while medal detecting this week i found belive it or not a 1909 penny!!! no its not a 1909 vdb s or a vdb but still a great find. on the obverse of the coin it has heavy green corrosion and i really dont know what the best method of cleaning i should do on a penny and im not going to get it perfesionaly cleaned so im really stuck on what to do bob ( if i have some time tonight i will put some pics on )
Nice find! Have any pics? I would try letting the coin soak in mineral oil for an extended period to see if any of the verdigris lifts from the coin.
lol now your really goin to be exsided. i was out metal detectin in a very remote place in the woods and i metal detected right over an old wallet!! it had a 1941 s mec dime a 1942 merc dime 1909 penny 19181 penny and 5 other commen dates with it lol also it had two old silver crosses. i thought i was goin to faint lol
omg nice find! i've been detecting around in my woods lately behind my house. i've only found about half dozen horse shoes. you should have told us you found an old wallet in the first place!
cc51: Nice find. Things have dried up here lately. I just found another new (old) school to detect. Last weekend, besides junk clad, only found one silver dime. This last Saturday, same school, first hit was a silver ring. Got my juices flowing, but that was it for the day, besides two tons of junk.
Nice find on the wallet !! I have a foundation of a house that I have to search. It is sandstone, from the early 1800's, and is located in the middle of the woods. There is a nice LONG road that is growed over leading to it (lots of searching there), from my parents property too. I hope I find a couple wallets !
As to cleaning the green stuff off. First just try distilled water. Let it soak for a while. If you have a stove with a pilot light, place the distilled water with the coin over the pilot light area. Just enough heat to warm the water. Use only a glass container due to a metal one may make things worse. If this fails, you may want to try solutions of things like Vinegar, Lemon Juices, etc. but make sure you dilute them with more distilled water. This is not an extreamely valuable coin so a little experimenting would not hurt to much. Just remember that the green stuff you see is usually Copper Carbonate and was created by exposure to the elements. The removing of this will take some of the metal with it. I normally do not suggest cleaning of any type but if you do try the safest way first.
ha! i wish! the closest my detector goes to that is you can set it to only detect coins, and there is another setting for copper cents,dimes,quarters,halves,and dollar coins. i usually look for the old stuff in the ground. it isn't worth digging 5 minutes for a zinc cent or regular nickel.
No it isn't worth all that work for a nickel, but gold rings read as nickels. So, sometimes it is worth it.
i should gets some pics posted up later tonight but i have been useing toothpast and a tooth brush to srub away at the green corrosion and have managed to get most of it of but will it all come of? i must say it dose look alot better
also, try soaking in olive oil. It takes a long time, but I have seen some good results with it . (long time = months).
if its a gold ring, it will say small gold items. i usually do a simple test to see if its a nickel. when i find a spot where it is saying nickel, i just turn the dicriminator all the way up and push notch of the detector. if its a nickel, it will not have a tone. if its a tab top or junk, it will still sound. if there is no tone i usually dig it becuase i know for sure its a nickel. i didn't mean to sound like i didn't dig nickels, but i don't dig zinc cents in the dirt. if i'm in a sand playground i dig all coins becuase it is easy to dig in the sand with the sifter.
