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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4565054, member: 10461&quot;]Yeah, they&#039;re a mess.&nbsp; Zinc, while it has its industrial uses, is a trashy metal for coinage (hence my prior jab at the Nazis for using it everywhere they went).</p><p><br /></p><p>A detecting buddy of mine dug a Nazi 5-reichspfennig zinc coin once, as I recall (it must have come to Georgia as some GI&#039;s WW2 souvenir).&nbsp; I worked on it with a fine brass wire brush, simply to make the details more visible.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Naturally this is not how you should treat a coin under normal circumsances, but since it was already shot, the main goal was just to make the date and details visible.&nbsp; As I recall, the brass wire brushing did an acceptable job of that.&nbsp; Then I painted it with clear fingernail polish to seal it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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