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<p>[QUOTE="DoK U Mint, post: 1079798, member: 18848"]<font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="3">From personal experience.......I tried a ultrasonic cleaner on some flood plain recovery Lincoln cents from the PRE</font></font><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="3">~20's (as it turned out after removing the mud & clay) in distilled water.</font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="3">I was not pleased with the results. But it did allow me to discover the dates of the coins I'd dug up. The color left behind was just too "off" with the crud removed. May have been the mud they had been buried in or the attempt to get to just the coins.</font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="3">Your results may very. </font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="3">I'm an adventurous fellow and you can be too. Just pull some pocket change out and try it yourself if you have a U/Cleaner on them.</font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="3">Highly diluted NH3 (ammonia) was recommended by others and it only made the coins look.........manipulated.</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DoK U Mint, post: 1079798, member: 18848"][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3]From personal experience.......I tried a ultrasonic cleaner on some flood plain recovery Lincoln cents from the PRE[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3]~20's (as it turned out after removing the mud & clay) in distilled water. I was not pleased with the results. But it did allow me to discover the dates of the coins I'd dug up. The color left behind was just too "off" with the crud removed. May have been the mud they had been buried in or the attempt to get to just the coins. Your results may very. I'm an adventurous fellow and you can be too. Just pull some pocket change out and try it yourself if you have a U/Cleaner on them. Highly diluted NH3 (ammonia) was recommended by others and it only made the coins look.........manipulated.[/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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