I was going through an old penny jar and I encountered these 3 wheat pennies. The other sides also have the corrosion. Here is my question, given there condition would you A) scrap them into change and spend em at the supermarket B) Try to sell them on Ebay as rare wheat pennies C) clean them chemically D) tap them with a soft buffer
Spend them. And don't try to sell them on eBay claiming they're rare. Don't stoop to such scumbag levels.. (no pun intended but those that try to pass off something that it isn't are scumbags in my opinion).
I'd just spend them, I think they're far too gone to even try and put some Verdi-care on them, and I agree with Mr. Clown and trying to sell them on ebay as something rare when it isn't is a scumbag move.
Yeah spending them is my inclination too. It think the one in the middle contaminated the one above and below it. So the stuff spreads.
If they were mine I'd throw the whole bunch in the woods & let somebody with a metal detector find them in a hundred years. That one is so bad I wouldn't even want to get it in change.
I'll probably get heckled for this, but you can use some CLR to take all that crap off of them. Then just throw them back into a bowl or jar of pennies and they'll brown again after a few years. You can still tell they've been cleaned, but they won't be corroded anymore. I know this because I experimented with some old Czech coins I had that were pretty bad that I found when I was stationed in Germany. I got a 'barracks' couch that got passed down tenant to tenant, and when I was cleaning it out I found the coins. Cleaned them in CLR, and was able to tell what they were. I was looking through my foreign coins the other night and they were a reddish brown (they were bright orange toned after cleaning).
Why spend any coin for 1/2 it value, put it in the pre 82 cent spackle bucket and save it until the gov allows a melt.
