First thing to know is that ancient coins are different then the coins you are used too. The metal has combined with various elements in the ground and has minerialized. It's delicate and cleaning requires a lot of patience and care. Without a whole suite of tools and experience at your back there is only a few safe things that can be done. Soaking the coin in distilled water is really the only way you can soften encrustations without damaging the coin itself. Then using something softer than the delicate coin to gently rub the dirt off one layer at a time. Toothpicks or bamboo skewers are great for this. Spend no more than 10mins at a time working on the coin before returning it to the distilled water and coming back another day. Change the water out every few days to once a week or so. This method will take months... Once you invest in a binocular microscope that is when the hobby kicks itself into high gear and you can use better tools.
Ha! I didn't upvote, just to spite you. j/k I upvoted because of the sweet reference bro
Currently reading Full Murder Hobo, its one of my favorite LitRPG series and the last book recently came out.
I'm new too but this is how I understand it. When looking at communities click on the ALL tab not local... That shows all communities that, that instance knows about (which includes communities on other servers like ttrpg.network) If you do it on a large server like lemmy.world then your pretty much searching the whole fediverse
Whatever you end up doing, make sure to start it a few days before your trip.
Wow someone found the community! :-D Welcome. I got started in the hobby when I watched a video on Reddit of a time lapse of someone cleaning an ancient roman coin. I didn't save it and have yet to find it again despite looking a few times. I was fascinated by it and started reading up on the subject. I didn't want to start because I was afraid of destroying a piece of history. Then I found the 1/2 lb bag of practice coins that promised guilt free entry into the hobby. 95% of the coins were Roman because they're apparently very prolific. I did find a coin that was paid to the crusaders. It lacks so much detail i haven't been able to identify it outside figuring out its from the crusades. There were a few other non-roman coins but not in good enough shape that I was able to figure out what they are, outside of seeing they don't look like roman coins.
Wow that looks really good for only a few days work. I'm impressed
Full Murder Hobo by Dakota Krout is now complete (3 books)
This game has splitscreen couch co-op that works great! My wife and I played it together using our steam link. It was a great experience. Amazing game
This is a great idea, but who would organize and run the AMA?
I didn't even know anywhtlike this exist. Crazy landscape that I bet is super dangerous. What kind of animals live there?
That's odd, we use "a wee bit *" in the USA too, not a terribly common colloquialism but still used. On second thought, maybe not lol. I do read a lot, perhaps I picked up my familiarity with the phrase from books.