Watch a coin hoard get cleaned.

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  1. 4to2centBC

    4to2centBC Well-Known Member

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  3. jwitten

    jwitten Well-Known Member

    *disassembled
     
  4. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

    Holy Cow, that's cool!
     
  5. Gavin Richardson

    Gavin Richardson Well-Known Member

    I probably could've done that more quickly with a pressure washer.
     
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  6. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    But-but-but you'll never get them into straight-grade slabs now! :rolleyes:
     
  7. Ordinary Fool

    Ordinary Fool Active Member

    Yeah, I'd have put the pile in a kiddie pool and tried to reconstitute the snakes.
     
  8. Aidan_()

    Aidan_() Numismatic Contributor

    Honestly, looks like someone eating a pancake.
     
  9. greekandromancoins

    greekandromancoins Well-Known Member

    I have seen this video. Unbelievable. However I could not find photos of this finished coins. I wonder what % of them were attributable vs. corroded or slugs.
     
  10. Dougmeister

    Dougmeister Well-Known Member

    Did you guys notice the dinosaur skeleton that walked across the back part of the table starting at 00:25? That was hilarious.
     
  11. chrsmat71

    chrsmat71 I LIKE TURTLES!

    wait...did i see some cows? or was that one of them flashback things?
     
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  12. Orfew

    Orfew Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

    Yes, it looked like a small T-Rex.
     
  13. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    haha yeah.

    Great video!
     
  14. Carthago

    Carthago Does this look infected to you?

    Reminds me of those time lapse body decay films of a rotting animal.

    I had a disturbing childhood.
     
  15. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    I grew up with timelapse in real life. We always had some dead animal in a state of decay, such as a possom, rabbit, squirrel, dog, etc. when we go out in the woods or fields to play. It was a daily ritual to see how much was eaten or decayed off the bones. Disturbed...? only when someone of us would pick up the carcass to throw it at someone. :) Growing up in the country is the only childhood you could have! I could never imagine growing up in a city.
     
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  16. 4to2centBC

    4to2centBC Well-Known Member

    I remember this scene vividly.



    Morlocks...........
     
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  17. Ed Snible

    Ed Snible Well-Known Member

    webOsismii gold.jpg

    The Catillon II hoard has a large web site including a blog with 77 posts by the guys who processed it. They discuss the coins and the cleaning.

    The photo above is from the https://www.jerseyheritage.org/treasure-island-blog/24-october-2014 post. It is "a tiny Osismii quarter stater of the Bull Standard type, very rare."

    https://www.jerseyheritage.org/whats-on/treasure---revealing-the-secrets-of-the-hoard
     
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