Anyone Want To Try Coin Cleaning?

chrsmat71 Does that mean you are sending me a group?

Thank you I will let you know how the cleaning goes.

I may not get to the US till late next week or the week after.

chrsmat71, Received today! What a guy. The extent of coins I've cleaned have been
ones cleaned already, just trying to improve on them. I had lousy news this morning & this made my day. Thanks again, joe
BTW, I promise to keep you updated on my progress.

fioti, glad you got your coins! pleas keep us posted. did you get the lot with the female coin? if so, that was one in my recent coin cleaning thread. ben thought it could be improved, but I didn't want to mess with it anymore, so I threw it in. please see that post for his suggestions on cleaning it further. (oil)

NASE...sure, should PM me your addy. I've got one left to give!

Went over to the US today and picked up my coins, thank you .
Will post pics later of before and hopefully after.

Received mine, thanks a lot, I really appreciate it as my first ancients at all! Well needless to say I'm absolutely clueless to cleaning these so I wasn't really expecting to do too well but one of them cleaned up pretty nice (I haven't attempted the others as of yet) I did scratch it up a little bit but for a first attempt I'm ok with that.

I can definitely make out the emperor quite well, the reverse I'm having a bit more trouble "identifying".... I don't mean identifying as all you experienced ancient collectors "identify" different reverses, lol, I'm having a hard time figure out exactly what it is I'm looking at.... It appears to be a figure standing in the enter with an off set X just below the left and center of the figure... I know it really doesn't mean anything without photos as it could be a hundred different reverses and without knowing which emperor it's basically useless info, but I just though I give am update as of now... I will try to get some photos and whatnot asap because now curiously has the best of me!

Thanks again!

If at all possible, I'm really looking forward to before/after shots and a summary of the methods used! I'm interested in knowing how to clean coins.

First, you want to identify the type, I recommend surfing through Tesorillo. Once you've done that, take a look at the emperors that issued the type and the legends they used. This one is a bit of a pain because 2 emperors with similar names issued it, but you can determine between the 2 by the length of the legend on the obverse. Comparisons on wildwinds will certainly help you here.