Ancient Coins

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A community for collectors of ancient and medieval coins.

ID requests are welcome, but please post clearly lit images of both sides of the coin as well as a picture of the edges of the coin.

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Hoard of gold coins, Roman Britain, 2nd century AD (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/ancientcoins

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have some good news for you. There's a whole genre of cleaning videos.

This one uses the toothpick method. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSrEiwEIURM

This other guy demonstrates a cleaning with Andre's Pencils/Crayons. (I've used these on some stubbornly encrusted old Roman bronzes.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfOFal97uhc

There's another video of a guy using hypodermic needles and a microscope. It was very memorable, but I can't seem to find it.

Some of these videos show cleaning using applications of chemical-looking goo. I don't know anything about that, so I can't recommend it.

[–] finitebanjo 1 points 1 week ago

I dont care about the process or how they look, I just want them to display a before and after in museums for preservation of history