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<p>[QUOTE="bob01081969, post: 464917, member: 16259"]I have a question I bought a mint set 1961 UC and the penny and nickel are both corroded inside the celo packageing, if I want to see if the nickels are full steps they would need to be cleaned, otherwise their only good for one thing pocket change.</p><p>If I want to know whats under the crud they will need to be cleaned one way or the other I have read about using Electrolysis any thoughts. Thanks Bob,</p><p> </p><p>These are still in the mint packaging, and I don't clean my coins but in this case the pennies and nickels are just blobs of rust. The person I bought them from stated they were in a safe all these years I felt like asking if the safe was full of water joke.</p><p> </p><p>I will be honest I bought this mint set because I want the F/S nickels and without some form of cleaning these 2 nickels will never be known whether they are F/S or not. I will add the person I bought the mint sets from is not a collector, he inherited all these coins from his father who ran a local company and just stocked away items in a walk in safe.</p><p> </p><p>So to Clean or not to clean</p><p> </p><p>Thanks </p><p>Bob,[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bob01081969, post: 464917, member: 16259"]I have a question I bought a mint set 1961 UC and the penny and nickel are both corroded inside the celo packageing, if I want to see if the nickels are full steps they would need to be cleaned, otherwise their only good for one thing pocket change. If I want to know whats under the crud they will need to be cleaned one way or the other I have read about using Electrolysis any thoughts. Thanks Bob, These are still in the mint packaging, and I don't clean my coins but in this case the pennies and nickels are just blobs of rust. The person I bought them from stated they were in a safe all these years I felt like asking if the safe was full of water joke. I will be honest I bought this mint set because I want the F/S nickels and without some form of cleaning these 2 nickels will never be known whether they are F/S or not. I will add the person I bought the mint sets from is not a collector, he inherited all these coins from his father who ran a local company and just stocked away items in a walk in safe. So to Clean or not to clean Thanks Bob,[/QUOTE]
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