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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 535990, member: 2972&quot;]NOS, My advice would be to store the coins in 2x2s or airtites in a place with a relatively stable temperature and low humidity -- adding dessicant to the immediate area of storage helps limit humidity as long as you don&#039;t allow the silica to become saturated.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I can understand, to a certain extent, removing the active areas of corrosion with a thorn or other non-destructive technique -- I mean who wouldn&#039;t like to have those coins less the spots -- I just don&#039;t do it myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the coins in question -- the 1890 certainly looks nice enough to try and save (nice skin on that coin less the spots), however the 1860 looks to me to have been cleaned already.&nbsp; So if the coins were mine and I wanted to try and salvage them, I would try and remove the spots on the 1890 and consider a dip and strip of the 1860 (although I admittedly don&#039;t know how these techniques will work with the CuNi of the 1860 versus the 100% copper 1890).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>However, in reality, if I didn&#039;t like the coins I would just get rid of them and find examples that I do like -- neither coin is rare by any stretch of the imagination so finding a nice spot-free example wouldn&#039;t be a particular challenge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Respectfully &amp; honestly submitted...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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