2nd hunt--my first cache!!

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Hey all...

Went out in my back yard today to see what I could find. 1950s rambler in a suburb . After finding a few pop tops on my first couple of hits, I found the "motherlode"!!

Got a strong repeatable signal on my ACE 250. I'm still very new and I'm not exactly sure how to read what the VDI is telling me so when I get signals it's usually a complete mystery until I dig up the item.

I dug a small hole (very excited that I could keep the hole size to a minimum) and immediately found two wheaties. That was great! Two coins in the same hole! That's a first. BUT...

The hole kept giving up coins!!! I kept widening the hole after going over it with my ACE and MORE coins would come out! It was like magic. The feeling was great.

All in all, I found:

15 wheaties (1919D, 39, 40, 2x40D, 41D, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47D, 50D, 2x56D, 58D)

6 memorial cents (59, 4x59D, 60D)

1 Jefferson nickel (1940)

22 coins in all! I'll go ahead and call that a cache. I guess some kid buried his treasure, only to forget where he put it...

Not too bad for my second hunt I think. Can't wait to find some silver! I really didn't expect to find much more than some junk and some clad in that yard, so I'm pretty pumped!!

HH to all

Adam
Minneapolis

 

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Hi guys and gals...

Will hopefully post some pics tomorrow (not that anyone is waiting with bated breath, haha).? Digital camera decided to take a breather but I think I've got that figured out...

While we're on the subject (and I know this has been covered ad nauseum) is olive oil the best way to clean these coins I found? I know they're not worth anything. I just want people to be able to tell what they are when I show them...

Thanks all!?

Cheers,
Adam
Minneapolis

I found a reply in another thread that pretty much sums it up as well as some other methods:

Hi guys, wanted to say thanks to you guys here first. Now to answer a question that I knew may come up eventually. I know I'm gonna take alot of heat for this one. But I consider myself a pro basically in all the aspects of the hobby. So here goes.

Living here in P.A. you get the worst conditioned coins in certain places. Not that the ground is bad it's the damn tree's in the area I think. The stuff that falls from certain tree's around here I think make the ground really acidy and the coins take a beating. Now if I'm hunting in a whole different area were the tree's are different the coins come out very nice. They also clean effortlessly. But the spots were I am finding most of my coins are in this acidy ground. My coins come out of the ground and fall apart just holding them. You can't even rince a indianhead without the rims flaking away all the time. Nickles are really bad to same with wheat's and just about all the coins that come up. Even the silver alot comes out either black as coal or has a billion years of this gray oxidation on it to were you can't barely even make out the coin. Even if it's silver.

I have tried every method of cleaning. I have 2 secrets on cleaning coins. I know guys are going to be like Jer you shouldn't clean nothing but let them soak in olive oil and that's it. Well I've done that and to certain coins you get minor results. And it's a slow process. But you will never see any detail or most of the time even a date if your using just oil. At least my coins. I feal there my coins none are for sale and I'll do what I please with them right. Who wants to hunt for stuff they can't even date or see. So I got to the point and said I'm just cleaning my stuff. How valuable is the thing going to be if you take it to the local coin shop with so much crude on it he won't even be able to see it. And also it's been in the ground for so long it's real value basically is gone just from nature.

I throw a couple hundred cleaned Indians on e-bay including alot of rare dates someone would still buy them. I may be loosing some in the long run but I'll make up for that with the amounts of coins I find. I use boiling peroxide for all old coins except silver. Put a small plastic cup in the microwave for about 30 seconds. Fill the bottom of the cup with about only 2 inches of peroxide if that. Take the cup out put the coins in and they start bubling like crazy. Let them sit for 5 or 6 hrs or until you don't see them fizzing anymore. Take them out and gently with wooden tooth picks start to scrap at the coin. If the dirt is coming off easily then it will appear to be ready to be fully scrapped. If no dirt hardly is coming off. Then you need to get new peroxide re boil them and continue the process. Go gently around the rims of the coins. You will chip them. Don't try to force any crude of of them. Change your toothpicks to sharper one's when trying to get in between the dates and lettering. I would suggest trying it on Wheaties first until you master it.

Now for the other secret nobody knows about. After you have fully got your coin cleaned with all the dirt off or most of it. The more dirt you can get off of the coin the better this next step works. Go to walmart or pep boys and buy a can of mothers mag and aluminum polish. It's in a red and white can. Won't scratch any metal surface. Place silver coin in your hand dip your finger in the white paste type polish and begin to gently rub the surface of the coin. Black will instantly dissapear as you polish. The great thing about this method is that you can polish it to your liking. If you want to have that really nice old black shadowing look you can achieve it with lighter buffing. After you have rubbed the coin with the mother's take a clean terry cloth after you let the coin sit with the stuff on it for 5 minutes and start to buff the coin on the towel. Buff gently and periodically flip the coin over to view the results. You can take off just a little black or you can make them look unc. It's up to you and the value of the coin you are working on.

Now for using it on Indians Wheaties and nickles. Get most of the dirt of the coins surface all of it if you can. Do the same thing with the silver coins just rub hard and faster. They have alot more crude on them. You will have to repeat the process several times to achieve what you are looking for. It's basically like being a manual tumbler. All the polish is is a fine grit and when you rub it it will polish it out. Trust me try it. It will bring dates back on coins you thought you'd never see a date. Nickles and other coins turn out looking tumbled. But they look damn good compared to being dirty and corroded. Also this polish hides the corrosion very well. When you are fully done with a coin. Take it to the sink put some soap in your hand and wash the coin off with soap and water like dawn or something like that. Make sure you rub the edges of the coin. You don't want to leave polish on them. Dry them with a paper towel and there done.

After this really long e-mail here to explain a few cleaning methods I sure hope someone will consider it and try it. Let me know in the future what you think. Good luck work at it because nothing happens over night. You'll get it then you'll be cleaning every coin you own.

HH Jeremy

Good luck!

 

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