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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4863355, member: 10461&quot;]Putting a bent coin between pieces of wood, or leather, or in a book (hey, cool, I never thought about that one), and then tapping it with a hammer is <i>usually </i>a good way to straighten it out.&nbsp; I suppose a vise would be good, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>For more modern <i>milled</i> coins, anyway.&nbsp; I once did this successfully with a US silver three-cent piece.&nbsp; Another time I took a severely curled 1854 half dime I&#039;d dug while detecting and straightened it out pretty well, though it still had a visible crease in it afterward.&nbsp; It was &quot;pringled&quot;, as some detectorists say (bent in resemblance to a Pringles potato chip).&nbsp; The small, thin silver coins seem to have had that happen a lot.&nbsp; You see it on the Canadian &quot;fishscale&quot; silver 5-cent pieces, too.&nbsp; And in England, there was the &quot;<a href="https://www.leftovercurrency.com/crooked-sixpence-love-tokens/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.leftovercurrency.com/crooked-sixpence-love-tokens/" rel="nofollow">crooked sixpence</a>&quot; tradition of <i>deliberately</i> bending coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, on a thin <i>hammered</i> coin of that age, I&#039;d be very afraid of breaking it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/home.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/home.htm" rel="nofollow">club</a> I went detecting with in England had some folks who were real pros at straightening bent and brittle hammered silver, with impressive results.&nbsp; Even coins that had been &quot;taco-ed&quot; (bent like a taco shell).</p><p><br /></p><p>But I digress.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sergei at Metal Detecting World (a brilliant fellow) has a detailed tutorial <a href="https://www.metaldetectingworld.com/straighten_bent_coin.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metaldetectingworld.com/straighten_bent_coin.shtml" rel="nofollow">here</a>.&nbsp; (I think the part about annealing should be relevant.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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