Man, I ruined like three Indian Head pennies that way before I learned about the hot peroxide method back in 2019. Now I just drop crusty silver in a cheap Crock-Pot with plain hydrogen peroxide for maybe 20 minutes and it lifts the gunk without scratching. Has anyone else switched their cleaning method recently or do you still use the old school ways?
I was walking out of the Walmart in Tulsa and saw something glint in a crack near the curb. Bent down and pulled out a 1943 Mercury dime, looks like it's been stepped on a hundred times but you can still read the date. Never found anything that old just walking around before, usually it's pennies or bottle caps. Does anyone else randomly spot coins in parking lots or am I just weird for always looking down?
I spotted this shiny dime near a storm drain in Austin and got super excited because it looked old. Cleaned it up and saw it was a 1943 Mercury dime, which should be silver. But something felt off so I bought a cheap magnet test kit online for $8. Sure enough the magnet stuck to it, turns out it's a common Chinese counterfeit made of steel. So I wasted $8 and got nothing but a dumb fake coin for my trouble. Has anyone else gotten tricked by these fake silver coins?