What's the best way to clean a "V" nickel?

[Anonymous]

I dug this "V" nickel on a hunt with Charles from NY yesterday. It's actually the first nickel of any type I have gotten with the EXII. Usually, when I try for them it's a beavertail. Yesterday, I got a nice sounding hit, a little lower than the usual beavertail, and about 8 inches deep so I decided to dig it. My decision was also influenced by the fact that we had already dug seated coins and IH pennies, so it was a nice place to hunt. Here's a pic. It's pretty mucky, but I'd like to clean it as well as I can as these don't come my way very often.

 

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[Anonymous]

Drop it in 1/2" super hot olive oil for about 1 minute then drop it immediately into a coffee cup of ice water to shock the crap off.
Wipe with damp cloth.
Repeat above steps until it comes clean.
That's what I'd do.
Do not use any harsh chemicals or you probably won't be able to read it afterword.
P.S. this advice is free . . . this time <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">

 

[Anonymous]

soak it in wostershire sauce for an hour or untill the red residue comes off. Then use Flitz polish to regain your desired look.

 

[Anonymous]

It's a huge numismatic no-no, but they look like crap already so what do you have to loose? Nickels are hard enough that you don't remove lots of material. I've tried tumbling corroded cents with pretty miserable results. Not planning on selling any of them and there has been several coins, especially buffalo nickels that was able to make out a date after cleaning.
Chris