As a modern day replacement for bronzed baby shoes. Very inventive indeed!

Leave it to you, Good Sir Rich, to locate this. Simply amazing.

Lol. Or freeze-dried infant poop graded by consistency, color, smell & size!

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What’s next for being authenticated, graded and encapsulated, Seth? Self-signed sentimental first trip to the dude ranch sun-dried organic cow plops?

NumisdudeTX

Well, I certainly did not know any of that and I thank you, Seth, for making me aware of it; always good to know what one is in fact dealing with. Perhaps is doesn’t matter to those who think of these salvage items primarily if not even solely as historical artifacts rather than re-discovered old coinage, but as we are inclined to value coins for their own sake all that rather egregious “rehabilitation” goes against the grain.

You can thank Dwight Manley for selling these “dregs” of the nasty “goo goo muck” ocean bottom for many many years now to get rid of it to those who like cleaned coins, ingots etc. His gold marketing company truly made this seawater trash into treasure for his company by selling to those who don’t understand the oxidation damage done to the surface molecules of the coins & ingots that all contain copper that reacts to such environment. But the grading labels don’t say “environmental damage” & only a few even say “shipwreck effect” to let buyers know these things are damaged numismatic items.

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It was an extremely clever strategy of those involved to pause between sales events.

The Salvation Army of salvage.