Looks good! My daughter and I still have some that we started working on this summer. 2 cleaned up real nice and easy. The others have been quite a challenge.
I honestly grew out of my cleaning phase a while back. I didn't think that an hour of cleaning for a $3 coin was really worth my time. The last batch of uncleans I had, I just dumped into concentrated hydroxide and called it a day. Ain't nobody got time fo dat
I don't do it to make money or catalog how much money I have. I do it for fun and a break in the action. I'm sure that I lose money on every coin.
I still enjoy 'tidying' my crusty ancient coins. I capture images of the crusty coins before I begin work on them. and at various stages along the way. Otherwise, how will I remember (and how will I show to others) how the coins appeared before I began to tidy them and my progress along the way as compared to how they look when I finish? Whenever I see a coin someone says they cleaned, I am sooo interested to see what the coin looked like before cleaning began. That is mho, of course.
This is exactly the point. Entertainment for $3 an hour seems like a good deal but being paid $3 for drudgery seems like abuse. If it is fun, do it; if not, don't. Get a job for more than $3 and pay someone else to clean.
I learned my lesson, which I shared here: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cleaned-and-destroyed-an-antoninianus.381353/#post-7623434 Can you recommend someone?
Once I realized that the entertainment aspect was sort of killed off by the back pain and eye strain, I started being much more discriminatory in my cleaning projects. I absolutely appreciate my experience buying and cleaning junk lots - it helped teach me nearly everything I know about coin Latin, identifying/attributing by portrait style and/or just a few letters. But, boy as I get older and make more money, it starts being a rather losing proposition.
