http://digdiary.blogspot.com/2007/02/coins.html Coins Almost everyone, who has ever worked with archaeological objects, or on a dig, has a coin story. It usually begins like this, "I was told to put the coins in some chemical...", and then after a certain amount of hours or days, depending on whether the person forgot that the coins were in "some chemical", the coins are gone, having disappeared or dissolved into the bath.
No I'm not an archeologist. But I have a friend who is --read this http://www.brooklynonline.com/history/bankoff.html Reuvain
