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« on: September 19, 2010, 06:37:20 am »
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Need some ideas/thoughts about cleaning the clad coins. I just got back into the metal detecting the past month or so. Anyone have a way to clean the clad coins? I know there are ultrasonic units and also tumblers that all say do the job. I have dug up in the area of 200 clad coins in a months time and they are all just nasty dirty. I would assume banks have something they use to clean coins and know if take them to the bank they would have to take them as are suppose to be legal tender. Kind of want to get a ice cream bucket before I cash them in.

I am in northeastern South Dakota and would like to find a hunting partner.

Anyone here that knows the Gardner North Dakota area? I have a lead and a map where there was a bunch of old railroad watches buried back in the 20`s-30`s. The party that provided the map worked for a watch maker and over the years he would take railroad watches and told me he figured 20-30 pounds of them. Lots of people collect the railroad items and depending on what they were buried in should be worth a bunch.

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« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2010, 11:13:04 am »
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tat2ed, welcome to THunting.com.......since their clad and not silver/collectible, cleaning them isn't a problem.   If you use the search function at the top right of the page, you'll find several previous posts on cleaning coins.   Most people use rock tumblers.   If you are willing to do a few at a time, any housewife will tell you leaving them in your pants pockets when you do the laundry works like a charm.

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« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2010, 12:50:16 pm »
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I kind of figured the tumblers would be better for the clad coins. Would think the ultrasonic cleaners would work good for silver and jewelry.

Do you hunt for gold nuggets down there? I am in NE South Dakota and saw on news last week a couple of guys found a nugget over 5 ounces out in the Black Hills. Have always had an interest in panning,sluice  boxes anything to do with hunting for gold. To bad I live clear over in the eastern part of the state as would like to learn all the gold stuff.

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Rich, there is no reason why an ultrasonic cleaner won't work if you already have one laying around.    As for the nuggets, I live between the Vulture mine and the area of the Lost Dutchman, so yeah....there are nuggets to be found around here, but except in certain places or at certain times of the year you can't pan for them.  Dry washing and/or metal detecting will do the trick, but unless you're talking a large size nugget, your general purpose detector isn't much help.   But it does turn up some nice relics in th same areas as well as the occassional coin that is worth hanging on to.

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« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2010, 02:48:54 pm »
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As has been mentioned, tumbling works great for clad coins. Do not put pennies in with the nickel clad coins or it will turn them red. Pennies should be done separately from the halves, quarters, dimes and nickels.

Ultrasonic cleaners are good but not very effective. They get loose, crumbly dirt off but do nothing for deep dirt in crevices in the coin etching. For that you need low current electrolysis. There are plans here and discussions on that topic.

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