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How to clean this Shield Nickel

ajbaumanajbauman Posts: 1,174 ✭✭✭
When I was going though some of my wheaties today... I found a shield nickel!! I was pretty stoked...but it's in pretty bad shape.

I think that the details are probably "fine" but I can't see anything under all of this junk!!

Anybody have any ideas as to the best way to clean this (someday I might want to submit this to a grader, if it is a rare year or type), so please keep that in mind in your recommendations.

Obverse:
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Reverse:
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Buying £2 Britannias

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  • It's corroded, and therefore nothing can be done to save it.

    A dip in acetone may be able to get some crud off, but will never remove corrosion.
  • COALPORTERCOALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭
    I doubt it's that rare, so you don't have anything to lose.
    Try a soaking in a solvent, like acetone.
  • KurtHornKurtHorn Posts: 1,382
    BRILLO!
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  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,860 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why clean it? just spend it.image
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  • I like the condition of the SAC dollars found in Cheerios much better.image
  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    that's an interesting find
    but it's surface is destroyed and cannot be saved,
    it may be worth a little more than a nickle, but not much
    you would have a hard time getting a store to accept this
    for payment
    LCoopie = Les
  • au58au58 Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭
    No kidding.
    Since it looks to be beyond hope, try Liquid Wrench.
    It's a penetrant, with some solvent traits.

    The best suggestion so far though is to sepnd it.
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The best suggestion so far though is to sepnd it. >>

    I'd at least want to know the date first. All we know is that it's apparently not 1866 since we see no trace of rays.
  • cinman14cinman14 Posts: 2,489
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    Good luck spending it. That thing is so corroded you would spend five minutes trying to get a clerk to accept it.

    If you are serious, soak it in olive oil like I do Ancients for about 3 months. Good luck on the submitting part image
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's beyond cleaning, friend.
    It's ready for HYPE and eBay.
  • Yeah that nickel is dunzo
    -Rome is Burning

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't soak it. The acetone will cost more than the coin is worth.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • kevinstangkevinstang Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭
    try sticking in a potato for a night or two, I do this with the copper coins I find while metal detecting, it will remove some of the junk. A soak in some hot olive oil might help as well- I also do this with dug copper and have used on a few nickels. Nothing will remove the pitting on the coins surface.

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