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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1846540, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with Bing and John in that I would not buy these coins but I see nothing wrong with removing the crust and seeing if one might have a surprise below.&nbsp; I do not believe in olive oil so beloved by so many but would start with a long soak in distilled water.&nbsp; If anything loosens up, you can speed the process by picking at crust with a pick of some sort.&nbsp; A piece of copper wire is safer but a push pin is faster and I see little to lose here.&nbsp; I believe there is a lot of fun and maybe profit in cleaning coins but you need to start with coins that have not already been culled out by expert cleaners as not worth the effort.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is a fact that most beginners will buy $100 worth of uncleaned coins and not come away with ten coins worth anything, let alone $10.&nbsp; They could spend that same money and get ten presentable or 5 beautiful common coins.&nbsp; If you were to have a source for uncleaned coins that were worth cleaning, it is a different matter but many coins are uglier below than they are in the first state.&nbsp; Learning to tell the difference is a skill.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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