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 Posted 12/17/2020  9:26 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add gtkwml to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
As posted before, I've been using electrolysis on my kilo of Balkan crusties. I wanted to post a step I take beyond electrolysis. Today's coin took two 5-hour sessions of electrolysis. Unfortunately the obverse was not recognizable, but the reverse wasn't too bad. The first image shown here is the coin after electrolysis, brushed under water with a stiff toothbrush. The coin was then highlighted by buffing on a piece of denim cut from old Levi's. (The second image). Good coins are ruined by cleaning, but I have fun restoring seemingly worthless crusties.
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 Posted 12/17/2020  9:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add GrapeCollects to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
A cleaned coin is always better than an unidentifiable one IMO
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 Posted 12/17/2020  9:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kamnaskires to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I know many cringe at the mention of electrolysis. But I will say: that is a nice looking reverse for a former crustie.
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Almost all ancient crusties need cleaning, simply to be able to identify them. Potential to increase a poorly identified coin to a fully identified coin can double the value and occasionally 10x the value or more.

Even so, cleaning always at least a bit risky even to the total loss of the coin, but the risk is almost always worth taking.

I agree with this sort of numismatic adventure; it can be lotsa fun!

Museums are almost always need to clean archeological find site coins.
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I think I have the answer; you would have gotten much better results if you used Wranglers instead of Levi's ...LOL
Just joking around, great results.
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