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Fantastic cleaning job DV! It is truly a great feeling to have effectively enhanced and preserved a piece of antiquity for generations to come. I have a myriad of different cleaning tools, devices, powders, concoctions, etc. (all of which I am not an expert at using). Of course, every coin requires a unique method for it's given condition. Personally, my favorite tool is the pin vise. A soft touch with circular motions is imperative. YOU MUST BECOME ONE WITH THE COIN. Inevitably, your spouse will demand you see a therapist, at which point, you inform him/her that you can't afford a therapist because you are too busy buying coins!!  Cheers, -Kurt  |
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great job DVCollector thats a nice coin with great details and a nice patina.
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Awesome work, DVC ... I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have the patience ... or I would probably lose my focus and start randomly carving and whittling until I came up with my own emperor and some sort of stickman thingy as the reverse!! => "there we go ... oh, apparently it's another emperor steveianusx"  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Biancasdad, That looks like a good tool--one that needs just as much care as my xacto blade.  Thanks for all the input too--I have learned from this one coin so far that it has several surfaces that need completely different approaches. Where two different surfaces meet can be very tricky, especially if one is less durable--this is where I made mistakes. Some verdigris/dirt sits on the top of a stable surface, and in other places verdigris has bubbled up from the interior of the coin--and removing anything will create a pit on the surface--a "whittled coin" as Steve puts it.  It's hard to tell the difference sometimes, and I made a few mistakes that I can't take back. I still think my effort was good for the first time, and I'll know more when I try this again--and I think I enjoy cleaning projects.  Thanks Edited by DVCollector
04/29/2012 1:03 pm
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DV, great job on that coin. It looks wonderful. The detail on the obverse is fantastic; it could not have circulated very long before it was buried.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thanks everyone! This was a good learning experience--and it was fun slowly uncover details--but I'm calling it quits while I'm ahead. Some of the harder verdigris is probably bonded to the coin, and it would be a mistake to pick at it. Here is the final picture. I have yet to fully attribute this one. It looks like Constantine I.  |
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United States
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Amazing what a little distilled water and lot's of patience can accomplish DVC! Nice Job! Most of my uncleans have no where the detail of this one. I always have a nice reverse and no obverse or vise a versa! Good on you!
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thanks! I cleaned it some more since then--but I'm done now. Here's the latest:  |
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Pillar of the Community
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You guys have been finding some nice coins to clean. I haven't had much luck finding this nice of unncleaned coins lately.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I was given this coin by a friend--it's my first attempt, but I'd enjoy buying a few more like this.
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Amazing results!
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Hmmm, hey you know that I love ya, right DVC? ... but isn't it a bit fixed? ... isn't it a bit like being given a paint by number project? (NOTE => yes, I totally realize that backs-are-gonna-be-up and that I'll get extremely derogatory comments and challenges to clean my own coins, balh-blah-blah) ... anyway ... => If you're given a "good-enough" coin, then don't you have a way better chance-in-hell of being Rembrandt, than if you're given a useless pancake as a palette? ... then no matter what, you are doomed to fail, yes/no? NOTE => stevex6 has had a few wine ... "alert his wife, before he gets ejected from this site"   |
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Steve, you're right--this coin was a very good candidate for cleaning--I saw that right away, and thanks Dave for sending it to me!  That said, I'm pretty proud of the results I got with this coin--careful work pays off! Thanks everyone! Edited by DVCollector
05/12/2012 8:34 pm
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good job, Dude ... I was merely poking the bear |
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Posted 04/29/2012 08:19 am
