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Hi all, hope everyones been good and well.
Have left a few thousand coins to soak for a year whilst I have been busy with business. Just started to work though them, thought I would add a couple of pics of the first dozenish.
Some hardly any dirt removed, some virtually all. now they are dry I can see more dirt then I could whilst cleaning.
Any comments, advice, remarks all welcome... no specific question. If its ok with you all, I will add pics to here each time I get a batch out and have given them a once over....
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 United States
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Post only a few coins at a time per thread, it's much easier for us to ID them that way.
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United Kingdom
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The coin in top right (ignoring the item that isn't a coin), was the first coin that I have been able to successfully 'pick' dirt off, I used a dart but was careful. I enjoyed cleaning that one specifically as I could see the results as I was cleaning, hope it doesn't look damage at all to you guys, I felt like it went well
Edited by mashisback
10/04/2015 08:08 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The coin in top right...was the first coin... Can you provide a close up of that one? Also, you don't seem to have flipped it over as you did with the others. Is there anything of note on the other side? |
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Hi sorry no, the one you mention is the 'non coin' this is already identified as an old seal, I cnt remember if thats what it was called, I stuck it into soak to see if detail came out but is no different, it was quite an interesting pic on it though, there was a thread on here a year or so ago, had never heard of these seals before then.
The one I was talking about that I manage to pick dirt off was the top right apart from this non coin.
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What did you use to soak the coins in? If it was distilled water. I recommend that you try soaking them in olive oil IMO it works better on softening the hard deposits and you can bring out more detail. The only draw back in using olive oil is that it can darken the coin a bit.
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United Kingdom
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Thanks Ech, Yes these are all in just DW.
I plan to clean and dry them all out, and then re-sort, put some away, put some back in DW and some in Olive oil. I think if a year in soak in DW hasn't done it, I have no choice but to up the anti with most in Olive oil,
Out of curiosity, which coins would you recommend specifically to go in olive oil? Also do you think there are some here that wouldnt benefit to more cleaning?
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yeah a good soak in olive oil did it for my coins and the harder to clean ones I just put it in a small pot with olive oil and let it simmer on a little fire for a bit, I'm not shure its conventional but hey it did help quite a bit.
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10/04/2015 2:26 pm
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United States
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I think top row number 2 is a Julian ii. It is the beard.
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Posted 10/04/2015 07:59 am
