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Decided to try and work on this Tiberius tribute penny, since to me it looked like it had a chance at looking decent with probably good details underneath. Seems like my gamble paid off. Started with water and soap for day 1, then moved to lemon juice and picking off chunks/rubbing off dirt for a few days, then lastly I used an annomia-water mix which really did a number on the gunk, which up to that point was mostly gone on the obverse but mostly still stubbornly there on the reverse. Overnight of the ammonia-water and some cotton swab rubbing got the denarius to where it is at now. It had a couple of spots of gunk left but since taking the photos they have been removed as well.   Please post any coins you've cleaned, any coin cleaning stories, and/or your Tiberius coins! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Never clean coins..... Unless they come out looking like that.
Well done.
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Valued Member
United States
406 Posts |
Wow! Nice transformation!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7066 Posts |
Wow. That's outstanding work, Jeff. If ever I need a coin cleaned, my first step won't be water and soap, or olive oil, or anything like that. It will be to ask you what your fees are.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nicely done! I never would have guessed.
I have only ever cleaned about a dozen LRB's from an uncleaned lot. Two days in hydrogen peroxide, a toothbrush scrub, six months in olive oil, and another toothbrush scrub turned half of the featureless slugs into poor, illegible coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
564 Posts |
Nice work!
Every time I clean my ancient I get lazy and forgot about them in olive oil.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Always a gamble to clean ancient coins.
Research the subject WELL before attempting to do so, especially for those cleaning techniques used by museums.
Expect to invest a lot of your time and patience as well.
Congratulations on the result achieved here.
A different set of cleaning techniques may have achieved a different, but equally successful result.
That's the nature of the beast when cleaning an ancient coins. Sometimes the cleaning techniques may have to be rather savage attendent with the risk that major damage may be done instead.
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 United States
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Wow, excellent job. Congrats on restoring a very nice coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice piece of conservation work. Do you recall the concentration of the ammonia water mix? Did you do anything to "neutralize" the coin after the last chemical wash? Are you planning to treat it with Renwax now? (I'd hold off on that until I was sure the chemical action is completely done).
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Spain
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 That was really worth while..super coin  Quote:
Please post any coins you've cleaned Here's my first coin I ever cleaned  Galerius 305-311 AE FOLLIS Heraclea (dia 25mm) OBV- IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMIANVS PF AVG Laureate head right REV- GENIO IMPERATORIS Genius standing left,pouring out patera and holding cornucopia Exergue- dot-HT-delta-dot Heraclea 4th oficina RIC VII - 37a delta Heraclea   Basically soaked it in distilled water for a few days and after the gunk was picked or brushed off I soaked it in olive oil for a few more.. Saludos Paul Edited by Palouche
07/08/2017 09:04 am
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Thanks for all the compliments! And great job on that Galerius, Palouche! Quote:
Do you recall the concentration of the ammonia water mix? Did you do anything to "neutralize" the coin after the last chemical wash? Are you planning to treat it with Renwax now? (I'd hold off on that until I was sure the chemical action is completely done). I started out with a 50/50 mix the first 24 hours, then for the next day-and-a-half I added more ammonia for a 75/25 mix. I soaked it for several seconds with distilled water to neutralize it. No. Not going to use Renwax, since I'd prefer to feel its original surfaces when I hold it. Oh and also the fact that I don't have any Renwax to use. Edited by VisigothKing
07/12/2017 7:45 pm
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Valued Member
Germany
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Outstanding job and beautiful coin!
Thanks for sharing.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 DirtyHarry and job WELL done VisigothKing~!! |
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United States
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Thanks for the additional compliments! I feel like I gave new life to this wonderful coin.
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Canada
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It will be to ask you what your fees are.  Well Done |
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