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Best Way To Get Rid Of The Green?

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 Posted 06/09/2018  4:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I couldn't hurt
I was accustomed to using Blue Ribbon cleaner & preservative.
But the EPA made them take out all the 'good stuff'.
I have seen old 1 oz bottles that I used to pay $6 selling for 50 clams on ebay !
Give it an acetone bath then do the wax. Patinated bronze looks much better (and more detailed) with a thin coat of oil or wax
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 Posted 06/09/2018  5:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It is Justinian SB-160
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 Posted 06/09/2018  9:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gtkwml to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you both for the ID help. And never would have thought of acetone. Do you use acetone + wax on most coins? Just luck that my nicest looking coin is a Byzantine, when I only have a few.
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 Posted 06/10/2018  06:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tenbobbit to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This is what can happen when people think they are improving a coins appearance - not done by me.

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I would much rather own a coin in a crusty condition than one that has been ruined.
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 Posted 06/10/2018  06:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I hate to see that, a nice coin ruined.
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 Posted 06/10/2018  07:35 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Truly awful

I had my own "disaster" a few years back
I picked up a small lot of Postumus bronzes from a seller in France
Based on the evidence I presume he had dug them up as a detectorist out in the field. I really only wanted the largest that had a trireme reverse and the rest I sold off to recoup most of the expense.
The second largest Sestertius had a lovely glossy green patina but a few edge chips exposing BD beneath. The more I tried to rid the cancer the more the edges chipped until the entire rim was exposed.
And still the BD persisted !
Well stage 4 cancer calls for extreme measures if anything was to be saved at all. Using a 'secret' recipe I proceeded to bathe the coin for an extended period of time with slow but certain results. After about one week my bottle of 'secret' sauce was finished and I fetched another from the kitchen closet.
Unwittingly I opened a bottle that was double the strength of the one previously used !
I changed the bath water and set the coin back on the shelf.
Around two days later I went to check on it.

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The glossy green patina had ALL been stripped away

A hard lesson learned
Fortunately for me the patient had already been diagnosed as probably terminal
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Sorry, I don't know anything about using REN Wax. If you wish, the green "bronze disease" can often be removed by soaking for a week or two in a solution of sodium sesquicarbonate. To make this solution you can dissolve 10.6 grams sodium carbonate (washing soda) and 8.4 g sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) in 100 mL distilled water. I have had good success with several Byzantine and other coins with this method.
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 Posted 06/10/2018  11:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gtkwml to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks, Seeker! I'll mix up some of that. One more arrow in the quiver.

Renaissance Wax is a protective wax put on when all cleaning is complete, like waxing your car. Used by the British Museum on coins and other antiques. Looks good! Available at ebay.
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 Posted 06/10/2018  1:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add arnoldoe to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks more like Justin I to me. It seems to end at "VSTI: on the left side, Justinian's coins usually go up to "VSTINI".

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I considered that also, but I believe the part of the legend is off flan and the bust looks now like Justinian than Justin.
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