Found these in grandpa's old chest.

I am under the impression that soaking a coin in water and a little handsoap will not do any damage, and I have done so before on many an occasion. As for your quarter, a good water soak and some light washing with a cloth rag should clean the gunk off, and I love the fact that someone carved the design back in after it had worn away! Very nice coins!

 

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Soap and water will hurt the coins....there was a post just the other day about that...don't remember where it was...

Speedy

 

Good to know, thanks....though I would like to know the details about that, I wash coins alot, they are the dirtiest things in the world. Going through change, my fingers turn black as soot... :whistle:

 

I can't remember what was said to the letter......I think was the point was that anything taking off something off the coin was cleaning....now I can see cleaning a coin that was found in dirt....but just cleaning for cleaning I can't see.
My fingers get black too sometimes after looking through junk silver....
How is school going?

Speedy

 

The 1906-D looks like it was brushed by steel wool. The first pic in the 2X2 holder is the most honest. The mylar on the 2X2 has nothing to do with the massive left to right deep hairlines. The pics of the coin out of the 2X2 still show this abrasive cleaning. Looks like MS60 details with Net grade of XF45-AU50 because of the extreme abrasive cleaning.