Posts: 528
Silver Spring, MD
Detector used Detector(s) Used - White's Matrix M6
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Posted Oct 16, 2009, 12:47:25 pm |
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Stumbled upon my best find ever Wednesday. Had a couple of free hours after work and decided to search the same 1800s farmhouse that I've hunted about fifty times before. I've pretty much removed all of the obvious targets from this site. I keep going back to "old faithful" hoping to find something that I had previously missed. There are no more clean signals here, only iffy ones and whisper signals. This particular signal was just a whisper. After digging out a six inch plug, the target was still in the hole but the signal was nice and strong. Down another inch or two I came across a dirt-encrusted penny. Please, let it be an Indian! Indian heads are one of my favorite finds, and the soil around here is usually pretty kind to them. Sure enough, a key date 1869 in pretty good condition. Definitely the most valuable coin I've found to date. The amazing thing is that my coil had probably passed over this coin more than ten times in the past, but I had not picked up the signal. On this visit the lawn was mowed short, the soil was moist, and I moved really slowly. Now I'm stoked that there might be more targets left here.
Steve
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Posts: 266
Texas
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Reply To This Topic #1 Posted Oct 16, 2009, 12:52:59 pm |
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Awesome find! I love those indian heads!  |
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Posts: 1116
river valley/ Fort Smith, Arkansas
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Reply To This Topic #2 Posted Oct 16, 2009, 01:06:07 pm |
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a beautiful Indian at that
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cleaning Earth 1 pulltab at a time.
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Midwesterner
Detector used Detector(s) Used - DFX, Pro 6000XL, SunRay Probe, Centech Pinpointer
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Reply To This Topic #3 Posted Oct 16, 2009, 01:46:22 pm |
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Very nice Injun. Congrats on that whisper....I just found one too a couple days ago. Not in as good as shape as your beauty! Should bring a pretty penny as well....G4-$90.....VG8- $125....XF-40 fetches up to $450.... Very nice find..  jgas |
JGAS
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Reply To This Topic #4 Posted Oct 16, 2009, 01:46:57 pm |
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Great find congrats on your best find there.
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Reply To This Topic #5 Posted Oct 16, 2009, 02:24:47 pm |
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That is one nice indian
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No treasure is too big or too small, I'll find them all!
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Solon Springs Wisconsin
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Minelab Explorer SE, Procoil and SEF coils Bounty Hunter Lone Star
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Reply To This Topic #6 Posted Oct 16, 2009, 02:39:23 pm |
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have found 4 or 5 of those and each one is exciting! hope ya get more
Slipperyjack47
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Posts: 1952
_____________ 1877 Indian Head_____________
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Reply To This Topic #7 Posted Oct 16, 2009, 05:06:28 pm |
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there really one of my favorites too. even before i dug the key date. as a matter of fact i think im going to find one in the morn. (wishful thinking) congrats. willy
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Posts: 528
Silver Spring, MD
Detector used Detector(s) Used - White's Matrix M6
_____________ 1869 Indian Head_____________
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Reply To This Topic #8 Posted Oct 16, 2009, 05:20:57 pm |
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there really one of my favorites too. even before i dug the key date. as a matter of fact i think im going to find one in the morn. (wishful thinking) congrats. willy
Now, THAT 1877 is one awesome coin. How 'bout we both find one tomorrow! Steve |
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Posts: 1163
NW NJ
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Whites IDXPro
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Reply To This Topic #9 Posted Oct 16, 2009, 05:33:56 pm |
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Thats one sweet looking IH, congrats ! They can be tricky to find and to find one in that shape is awesome, Nice Find !!!
TommNJ
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Reply To This Topic #10 Posted Oct 16, 2009, 05:43:32 pm |
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Sweet. Wonder what else is still buried there?  |
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Posts: 863
Bedford Pa
Detector used Detector(s) Used - E-Trac, GPX 5000
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Reply To This Topic #11 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 01:46:12 am |
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Very Nice Condition It's rare to get them that nice and even rarer for the date. WTG |
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Posts: 1724
Southern Michigan
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Minelab SE
___________ Gold Wedding Band Found & Returned - Wedding Band Found & Returned___________
Primary Interest: All Types Of Treasure Hunting
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Reply To This Topic #12 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 03:37:22 am |
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congrats on a great find!  looks real nice, good luck hitting those whispers. |
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Reply To This Topic #14 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 04:07:52 am |
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Most excellent IH!!! Congrats on a fantastic BANNER coin.
-MM-
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Oldest coin - 1700's Spanish silver piece of 8 reale
Oldest U.S. silver - 1833 Capped Bust Half Dime
Oldest U.S. copper - 1847 Large cent
Civil War best finds:
*NC officers belt buckle
*CSN Confederate Navy Officer button
*Eagle Sword Belt Plate
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Posts: 2619
SW Michigan
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Reply To This Topic #15 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 04:43:42 am |
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Congrats on an exemplary find.  Banner, too! It is nice to see an IH up there on the Banner for a change. Keep digging! |
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Posts: 19278
Shelbyville or any yard where the owner will let me detect!
Detector used Detector(s) Used - ace 250
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Primary Interest: Metal Detecting
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Reply To This Topic #16 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 04:50:04 am |
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congrats on that beautiful indian and on making the banner |
ALLEN
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Posts: 528
Silver Spring, MD
Detector used Detector(s) Used - White's Matrix M6
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Reply To This Topic #17 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 05:24:43 am |
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Sweet. Wonder what else is still buried there? Thanks. Though I've spent a hundred hours on this one acre in the past year, I'm optimistic there is find more at this site. I haven't found much silver here, its been crazy good for finding pennies. Over the past year its yielded nearly every form of penny back to the classic head large cent-- just missing the braided head large cent. Otherwise, I've seen modern memorials, wheats, indian heads, a flying eagle, 2 matron head LCs, and one classic head LC. This 1869 was the best find of all. |
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Posts: 528
Silver Spring, MD
Detector used Detector(s) Used - White's Matrix M6
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Reply To This Topic #18 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 05:31:25 am |
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Nice find...congrats on the banner!
Thanks Romeo1. I hope everyone has a chance to find a banner coin. I just love digging in the dirt wondering what might be hidden in that next plug. |
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Posts: 528
Silver Spring, MD
Detector used Detector(s) Used - White's Matrix M6
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Reply To This Topic #19 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 05:35:42 am |
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Most excellent IH!!! Congrats on a fantastic BANNER coin.
-MM-
Thanks Doug. Hope to see you back on that banner real soon. Not too many folks have had two finds on the banner at the same time as you have! Steve |
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Posts: 1716
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Mine lab se pro/ Teknetics 7500 / teknetics 8000 / fisher m-scope (aquanut) 1280x/2ea compass relic magnum 6 /compass yukon 77b (professional) /compass yukon 71b
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Reply To This Topic #20 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 07:58:36 am |
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great Indian head penny!!!
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My Find of a Lifetime!
Posts: 4580
1313 Mockingbird Lane
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Whites Spectra V3i, Minelab Excalibur 1000
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Primary Interest: Other
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Reply To This Topic #21 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 08:05:25 am |
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Nice find. You sure took advantage before the rains came. Looks like the rest of the weekend is a washout!
Congrats on the banner!
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Posts: 694
Utah
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Tesoro Tejon, Garrett Ace 350.
Primary Interest: All Types Of Treasure Hunting
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Reply To This Topic #22 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 09:15:16 am |
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I believe your coin is the 1869/69 worth a lot more than the 69,take it to an expert and let them look. I'm pretty sure yours is the overdate, way to go! Kane 23
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Posts: 528
Silver Spring, MD
Detector used Detector(s) Used - White's Matrix M6
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Reply To This Topic #23 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 12:56:38 pm |
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I believe your coin is the 1869/69 worth a lot more than the 69,take it to an expert and let them look. I'm pretty sure yours is the overdate, way to go! Kane 23
Thanks Kane 23. I think you may be right. Do you think it is an 1869/69 overdate? |
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Reply To This Topic #24 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 02:07:53 pm |
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Can't tell for sure. This is what we are looking for: Congrats on making the banner. |
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Posts: 2633
South Central PA
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Reply To This Topic #25 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 03:12:19 pm |
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When I first seen this posted on here I thought it might be a overdate but couldn't tell from pic.. it has alot of corroion on it to be able to tell for sure... You would need to take this to a coin dealer you trust an know he wouldn't try to jip ya an find out what he says...
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Posts: 3933
Zelienople
Detector used Detector(s) Used - White's XLT
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Reply To This Topic #26 Posted Oct 17, 2009, 03:28:05 pm |
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Congrats on that key date Indian!
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A gentleman farmer named Floyd
With some of his kin was annoyed
The boys in their youth
Did not know the truth
And one of his tools was destroyed
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Seymour Johnson AFB NC
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Etrac,Vaquero, Cibola, Minlab Excal and a vibra probe 580
___________ Class Ring Found & Returned - Another Class Ring Found & Returned!___________
Primary Interest: All Types Of Treasure Hunting
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Reply To This Topic #27 Posted Oct 18, 2009, 03:50:44 pm |
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Awesome key date coin. I sold my only keydate that I have ever found and have been sorry ever since.
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God and country.
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Posts: 528
Silver Spring, MD
Detector used Detector(s) Used - White's Matrix M6
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Reply To This Topic #28 Posted Oct 18, 2009, 05:36:24 pm |
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Awesome key date coin. I sold my only keydate that I have ever found and have been sorry ever since.
Thanks Birdman. I readily cash in clad, but hope to never sell any other finds. I'm sure I would be sorry too! |
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Posts: 364
Baltimore/Cambridge, MD
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Teknetics T2, ACE 250
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Reply To This Topic #29 Posted Oct 19, 2009, 12:13:25 pm |
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Congrats on a great IH. My buddy found the 1877 IH a few weeks back in MD also. I still can't figure out how his didn't make the banner. Good luck, there has to be more out there.
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Posts: 377
Lake Stevens, WA
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Minelab Explorer SE
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Reply To This Topic #30 Posted Oct 19, 2009, 12:23:07 pm |
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Love those IH's, we don't get many here.
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Posts: 502
San Diego
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Fisher F75, Minelab E-Trac, Whites Surf PI Dual Field
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Reply To This Topic #31 Posted Oct 19, 2009, 12:27:55 pm |
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I love hearing about sites where someone has hammered it 20 or more times and persists, and continues to come up with 'fringe' signal targets like yours. |
Jim in So. Cal.
Fisher F75, Minelab E-Trac, Whites Surf PI Dual Field
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Posts: 528
Silver Spring, MD
Detector used Detector(s) Used - White's Matrix M6
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Reply To This Topic #32 Posted Oct 19, 2009, 03:05:04 pm |
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I love hearing about sites where someone has hammered it 20 or more times and persists, and continues to come up with 'fringe' signal targets like yours. I've learned a lot about metal detecting while at this site. If I'd left this place after I stopped finding easy targets I would have left a lot of good coins in the ground. And the funny thing is this--I probably would have stopped hunting this site if I had had any other goods sites lined up. I kept going back to the same place and new coins would keep turning up, albeit at a pace of about one per hour. Its was very humbling this past summer when I found an 1811 large cent in a small area I'd hunted a dozen times before. How could I have missed it so many times? Did I just ignore the "undesirable" sounding targets? I've still got a lot to learn about this hobby. I do know that once the (easy) shallower targets are gone, there's a lot more to be found on an older site. Steve |
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Bay Area Ca.
Detector used Detector(s) Used - White's Spectra V3
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Reply To This Topic #33 Posted Oct 24, 2009, 12:03:27 pm |
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great coin, what method did you use to clean it up? hh
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Happy Hunting Everyone, may your swings be filled with beeps, and your scoops full of the treasures you seek!
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Posts: 528
Silver Spring, MD
Detector used Detector(s) Used - White's Matrix M6
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Reply To This Topic #34 Posted Oct 24, 2009, 12:18:47 pm |
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great coin, what method did you use to clean it up? hh
I soaked it a few days in olive oil, and worked out the crud with a toothpick. |
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Land of Jelly Bellies, Home of the Bottom Buddy
Posts: 674
The Queen City
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Minelab Explorer II
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Reply To This Topic #35 Posted Oct 28, 2009, 08:18:56 pm |
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great coin, what method did you use to clean it up? hh
I soaked it a few days in olive oil, and worked out the crud with a toothpick. Wish I could have gotten a little more of it off, there is still more in the crevices that I could not reach. I clean mine with a toothpick and a binocular microscope. The devil is in the details... |
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Bryce-IL
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Wherever Silver's Hidin'
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Reply To This Topic #36 Posted Oct 28, 2009, 08:29:59 pm |
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What a BLAZER Injun' |
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Posts: 528
Silver Spring, MD
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Reply To This Topic #37 Posted Oct 29, 2009, 03:36:05 am |
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What a BLAZER Injun' Thanks Bryce. I've only found seven of them since I've returned to metal detecting, and was lucky to find this one. |
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Posts: 528
Silver Spring, MD
Detector used Detector(s) Used - White's Matrix M6
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Reply To This Topic #38 Posted Oct 29, 2009, 03:37:15 am |
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great coin, what method did you use to clean it up? hh
I soaked it a few days in olive oil, and worked out the crud with a toothpick. Wish I could have gotten a little more of it off, there is still more in the crevices that I could not reach. I clean mine with a toothpick and a binocular microscope. The devil is in the details... That is a great idea. Where did you find the binocular micropscope, are they expensive? |
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