Potato Cleaning - After Photo 1812 Large Cent

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• LanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 5, 2013 5:20PM

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  what kind of potatoes?
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• jmcu12 Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭

  January 5, 2013 5:44PM

  I didnt know if that made a difference so I just used good 'ole russets.
  
  Maybe I should try Reds, Yellows, etc? Perhaps I can get it in a holder that say Red Potato Veggie Cleaned?

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,890 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 5, 2013 9:32PM

  Don't waste any more potatoes on that coin. If you want to play with this coin some more, try a very long soak in mineral oil or olive oil but I'm afraid this coin is a lost cause.

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• ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 5, 2013 10:07PM

  Carry it with your pocket change till summer then set it on the windowsill till next fall.

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• LanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 5, 2013 10:41PM

  
  
  << <i>Don't waste any more potatoes on that coin. If you want to play with this coin some more, try a very long soak in mineral oil or olive oil but I'm afraid this coin is a lost cause. >>
  
  
  
  +1. i've read about people letting em sit for many months
  
  and i personally favor red spuds
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• Walkerguy21D Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 5, 2013 10:49PM

  
  
  << <i>Carry it with your pocket change till summer then set it on the windowsill till next fall. >>
  
  
  +1.....maybe you can wear down those badly corroded surfaces to Fine+ detail, then let it try and recolor a bit naturally over time.
  Old timers with less patience would have burnished it and then hit it with Deller's Darkener (or worse!).
  
  

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• DorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭

  January 5, 2013 10:56PM

  Try WD-40.

  Becky

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,890 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 5, 2013 11:06PM

  
  
  << <i>Carry it with your pocket change till summer then set it on the windowsill till next fall. >>
  
  
  
  Good suggestion. It would make a neat pocket piece.

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• CoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭✭

  January 6, 2013 12:04AM

  
  
  << <i>This has been through 3 potatos >>
  
  
  
  I assume you are just shoving it into a potato?
  
  For how long?
  
  

  John Agre
  
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• kevinstang Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭

  January 6, 2013 12:12AM

  Try frying it in a little oliver oil followed by a quick dip in ice water, wipe the crud off afterward with q-tip(s), then carry around in pocket for about a year or so...thats what I have done with some of my metal dector large cent finds. Apparently the old timers used to fry them up in bacon grease- I prefer clean olive oil.

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• TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,623 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 6, 2013 1:03AM

  lmao @ WD-40
  and maybe a little elbow grease and scouring pad.

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• TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,623 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 6, 2013 1:15AM

  P.S.
  I love this place.
  Try a Honey Melon.
  

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• GeorgeKellogg Posts: 1,251 ✭✭

  January 6, 2013 1:42AM

  
  
  << <i> >>
  
  
  
  Does anyone think that Miss Liberty looks a lot like Miss Potato Head?

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• jmcu12 Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭

  January 6, 2013 2:05AM

  CoinRaritiesOnline - I left it in the potato for only 24 hours and then started a new potato.
  
  I wonder if leaving it for several days might help?
  
  When I started this I was not trying to restore a coin but to try something that I had read about on these boards. The coin has nice detail but I agree it is mostly lost.
  
  I guess I was just wondering how 'good' I could get it to look.

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• LindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 6, 2013 2:50AM

  Hope it didn't ruin the taste of the French Fries.

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