Cleaning burnt coins, Any help appreciated

Texast · April 18, 2007 1:11PM

Met a guy that had a house fire back in 1993, he has ten 5 gallon buckets of wheat cents all black charred from the fire, along with hundreds of silver coins, these didn't melt but are very charred, the silver dollars appear to have the plastic film from 2x2's melted onto them. I doubt it would be worth the effort to clean up the wheats, maybe enough to get copper value for them but I had thought about using a vibrating tumbler for the silver to clean them up after soaking in acetone. Anyone have any suggestions?

commoncents05 · April 18, 2007 1:14PM

If there's anything of value, it would send it to NCS, otherwise, acetone might do the trick.

-Paul

BigE · April 18, 2007 1:19PM

I wouldn't use a tumbler. The common ones I would not worry about, maybe dip them. The 1878 you picture looks like a CC, so maybe send to NCS to see what they can do with it. If it comes back OK, look for other better dates and send them in too------------BigE

SpaceMonkey · April 18, 2007 1:27PM

i think it's a cool look! for the ones of no real added value... I would keep them that way.

I like em!

/ed

BigE · April 18, 2007 1:29PM

Tell us what they taste like, a medium rare one

---------------BigE----------I would like one with mustard please

Cleaning burnt coins, Any help appreciated

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