2 1700s coppers from one field

[Fyrguy86]

2 1700's coppers from one field

Decided to take the etrac out. Field had 4" of frost. It was so hard, I bent my predator shovel lol. But I found what I think might be a 1798 draped bust cent and a 1794 flowing hair cent. Any ideas of how to clean the green off it what I should do?? These were found in an area maybe 1/2 acre lol. Come on spring thaw!!

 

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[Fyrguy86]

The one does have lettering on the edge

 

[Greylock]

Nice finds. Looks like a draped bust and a liberty cap

 

[tennessee digger]

I would wear that place out!!! Good finds.

 

[Ifoundit69]

Great finds !

 

[1stColonialRegiment]

Awesome finds! After ruining several colonial coppers by over cleaning, I learned my lesson and all I do now is use a little water and a q-tip and go very slow. The dirt on the coin can help bring out the detail. Rub gently and pat the excess water and dirt off with a paper towel. Best of luck,
-1stCR

 

[relicmeister]

very nice! you might try boiling hydrogen peroxide /water mix

 

[Ahab8]

Awesome old coins! They look a lot like most of my old coppers have come out of the ground. I usually do a quick warm hp bath. I just used olive oil on one for the first time and was pretty happy. I fear that yours might be past the point of return and am afraid you will end up with blanks if you do anything. This is the big heart breaking let down of finding awesome old coppers. Sometimes there's just not much you can do. Here is what mine look like normally when they come out and the one after the olive oil. But please, I am in no way telling you to do anything to yours. Hopefully someone with lots of coin experience will chime in. Great finds and that's a pretty old site so hit it hard.

 

[Ahab8]

 

[gunsil]

I agree with 1st Colonial. If you remove the green you will end up with less detail, and the coins will look worse. Finding colonial era coins is great, but often we can't really improve the condition and have to be happy with what we have. Some soil is kind to these old coppers, but much is not, and finding early ones in good condition with little corrosion is rare, and there is sadly little one can do about this oxidation without making matters worse. Great hunt, and perhaps you'll find better ones in the future.

 

[Ahab8]

Awesome finds! After ruining several colonial coppers by over cleaning, I learned my lesson and all I do now is use a little water and a q-tip and go very slow. The dirt on the coin can help bring out the detail. Rub gently and pat the excess water and dirt off with a paper towel. Best of luck,
-1stCR

1st and Gunsil are dead on here. I have screwed up a couple of old coppers as well. My rule of thumb now is that I have to be able to see that there is good detail that is actually protruding from the coin. In other words if you have a little detail but it's just a flat surface with no 3 dimensional detail you leave it alone. The dirt and the crud is the only reason you're seeing detail and when you clean it the detail will be gone. If you do in fact have some 3d detail protruding from the coin sometimes you can do a light cleaning. This is why we all love the silver :-)

 

[vpnavy]

Thanks for sharing...

 

[Gaspipe]

Nice finds congrats

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[Fyrguy86]

And today....my buddy pulled a nice 1926 merc! Ground was terribly frozen lol. Come on spring!!!

 

[Evolution]

Nice finds. Any hunt where big old copper coins come up is a good day in my book. I'd be very careful with those coins. I agree with some of the earlier replies. I think the green verdigris is what's giving you the detail and if you hit it with peroxide you'll end up with a couple fried copper slugs. I would leave those two as is.