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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BostonCoins, post: 2009372, member: 34720&quot;]Growing up, I was a &#039;coin addict&#039;. I constantly searched through my parents change looking for wheat cents (had no clue about silver in that day). I was pretty darn close to finishing my wheat cent book, (minus some of the more key dates).</p><p><br /></p><p>My uncle owned an Antique shop up in Maine. One day, he came down to visit and said &quot;I hear you like coins?&quot;... I answered that I really did. He said &quot;Here you go.. Found these in a drawer of a desk I just refurbished.&quot;. Laid into my hands were a half dozen dark coins the size of a half dollar. They were well worn and hard to make out. </p><p><br /></p><p>As I examined them more closely, I could make out Hibernia. Some of the coins even had a readable date. I remember a few of them dated from the 1600&#039;s... and a few from the 1700&#039;s. Back in those days, the internet wasn&#039;t around so I headed down to the library to look up information on this Hibernia. </p><p><br /></p><p>As I soon found out, it was an Irish based currency. I was incredibly excited to have such old coins, and to top it off, I had Irish decent in my blood, so I was even more connected to the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later in life, I was working at a company where I worked with chemicals. One of the chemicals I worked with was rather volitile, but it really cleaned metal very nicely. Granted, if you stuck your hands in it, it would remove all oils from your skin.. but it was a good chemical for cleaning!</p><p><br /></p><p>I had always wanted to get the coins cleaned up some.. so in my moment of &#039;brilliance&#039; (being sarcastic there), I brought in one of my Hibernia coins to try to clean it up. </p><p><br /></p><p>I dropped the coin in and let it sit for a good half hour in the solution. I took the coin out, and gave it a scrub. It took SOME of the crud off... but it wasn&#039;t that great of an improvement. I gave up, and threw the coin in my desk drawer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fast forward about a week later... I remembered that my coin was in my desk drawer, so I went to fetch it. I now had TWO coins! Yeah... the chemical was so strong, it obviously corroded the coin further, and it broke in two pieces while sitting in my desk drawer. Needless to say, never ever attempted that ever again...</p><p><br /></p><p>Some lessons are hard learned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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