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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;carl1949, post: 330161, member: 12263&quot;]Wow!&nbsp; Thanks for all the responses!&nbsp; I have been trying and trying to get back on this site and it apparently has been down...at least for me.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>OK.&nbsp; The coins were buried in the late 30&#039;s early 40&#039;s in a garage my Grandfather once owned.&nbsp; I helped him unearth them back in the 70&#039;s so they wern&#039;t actually in the ground for 75 years, just 40 or so!!&nbsp; The coins had been all wrapped in paper rolls, and placed in earthen jars.&nbsp; Of course over all that time moisture crept in and made the wrappers cruddy.&nbsp; Now many of the coins have the remnant of the paper wrappers on the edges.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have used ammonia to remove the green crud with a vinegar bath afterwards.&nbsp; That has worked wonders on most of them, but there are those that I suppose were on the ends of the rolls where they are black on one side and pristine on the other.&nbsp; I know that cleaning coins is a BIG NO NO, but I had no choice with many of the coins.&nbsp; They simply wern&#039;t worth looking at...much less handling at all.&nbsp; Covered in c)(*^&amp; and green stuff!&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Someone mentioned salt.&nbsp; Since they lived near the coast, I suspect that might be a possibility.&nbsp; They used a lot of oyster shell on driveways etc.&nbsp; Maybe that is what did it.&nbsp; I will try my hand at a couple of pictures...not promising anything since I am so new at this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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