this has been asked before but will the green crust from one wheat go to another and eventually ruin a whole roll? ..and is there anyway of removing it safely
The short answer is seperate it from the herd and have it put down. It WILL infect the entire roll if left untreated. I had a number of old dirty cents soaking in olive oil for awhile, trying to loosen some of the dirt, and a green crusty cent I threw in ended up infecting the other coins with green blotches. Had to write off the works. Not exactly the same scenario, but if you try to remove the green crusties, be sure and isolate the infected coin.
Iam not a person who promotes cleaning of any kind but there is a time when it is necessary. Although I have clean only a few coins using different methods one of the best I have heard of recently is the one used by Jim C from MICH. The heated peroxide 10 seconds in the micro worked out great for him. Look at his coin. WOW. Also I have tried what Aslanmia suggested and that works too. I guess the question is that there comes a time where you have nothing to lose because the corrosion/green is hurting the coin. Hope this helps.
That would be a clever marketing tool to put old wheat cents in boxes of wheaties with a chance to get a 1909-s vdb or 22-d. I might have to buy a box or two!
So who said PVC? Note PVC does not contaminate coins. It is the additive in the PVC that leaks out and attacks metals. As to the green stuff going from one coin to another, not likely. It is not alive, does not travel well without help. If the coins are touching each other, whatever started on one coin will continue to contaminate the others in the same way. Usually if in a roll only the ones exposed to the air will be effected by whatever is causing the problem and the outer one will acutally protect the others by not allowing contact with whatever is the problem. Regardless, remove the one with the contamination from the others and make sure you do something so the others don't get that stuff also.
