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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bugo, post: 1828702, member: 53226&quot;]Warning to purists: Skip this thread because I cleaned coins.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want to hear it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted some junk silver coins just so I could hear the way they sound when they are jiggled together.&nbsp; That sound is music to my ears.&nbsp; I placed an ad, and bought them off a fellow forum membe<font size="4">r</font> (john1942sept, who is an asset to this forum and I highly recommend him) for $20.&nbsp; They were badly corroded as the pictures attest.&nbsp; They were immersed in water in 1944 and some of the rust got on the coins.&nbsp; I tried several different methods for removing the gunk, but none of them worked.&nbsp; I decided to try the vinegar method, which I didn&#039;t think would work.&nbsp; I soaked them overnight and was shocked that most of the corrosion was gone!&nbsp; I sent John a picture of the after pictures and he said that some of them are almost MS (I&#039;m no expert on coin conditions) and that some of them are worth $20 or so.&nbsp; The only bad thing is that they turned out so nice that I&#039;m going to put them in cardboard holders instead of jiggling them together.&nbsp; The 1943-D quarter still has some gunk on it, and the 1942 has a little gunk on the rim of the coin, but the improvement is staggering.&nbsp; I highly recommend this procedure for coins that are badly corroded.&nbsp; Flame me if you want, but I ended up with 5 nice quarters for a great price and turned 5 quarters that were in terrible shape into presentable coins.&nbsp; Thanks again, John.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u126/bugo348/100_2248_zps26221bfd.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u126/bugo348/100_2249_zps5752981c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>After:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u126/bugo348/IMG_3116_zpsf2e7294f.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u126/bugo348/IMG_3117_zpsa54fc76f.jpg?t=1386700446" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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