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Clean Further Or Let It Be?

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 Posted 12/12/2011  7:52 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Ambro to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Attached is an image of a very detailed coin of Licinus.
I have always been afraid to attempt cleaning it for fear of messing it up.
The deposits are rock hard.
How would you clean it/ Or would you just let it be?
Happy Collecting,
Tim

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 Posted 12/12/2011  8:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I don't think you will be able to do much more cleaning without hurting the coin.
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 Posted 12/12/2011  8:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ancientcoinguy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Let it be.

My rule that I use when cleaning ancients is that if I can fully attribute it, the coin no longer needs cleaning. Even if there is still dirt or deposits left I stop. Its better to leave some dirt on than risk destroying the coin.
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 Posted 12/13/2011  12:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Unfortunately, that verdigris has eaten into the coin. If you remove it, you will find the detail has been obliterated where the verdigris was.

Curiously, I have a Roman bronze, where some silvering remains on the reverse, but the obverse looks much the same as the coin pictured here, with regard to verdigris damage.

The verdigris is removable, but to do the job properly would take hours, and would not be worth the effort, when all you are going to find is damage under the verdigris.
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 Posted 12/13/2011  10:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Ambro to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the words of wisdom---I will let it be.
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