Posted 04/17/2015 12:54 pm
Both the coins were just in Olive Oil but both were virtually unrecognizeable as coins. Just lumps of black goo so I thought I did well to get down to this detail. I find when they are really bad, they always have bad pitting that cannot be smoothed out unless you know of a way to do that. I am still new to this so any help really. I think I am expecting too much from the items I am cleaning. I couldn't see any other way of getting this amount of detail out of the coins. It just seems that ancient bronze naturally has small pits and the art maybe geting down to the last layer before the pits show. That's what it seems like. Of course, close-up photos don't help. They look much better in the hand.
