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<p>[QUOTE="svessien, post: 4179721, member: 15481"]With bronze coins, I use distilled water or olive oil bath, let them dry, gently brush them with a small brush. I use the kinds of brushes you'd use for painting on a canvas. Some of them I have cut down to make them a bit hard, others are broad and soft. After having taken off the dirt that was loose enough to come off, the coins go back in the bath again, to repeat the procedure. It is a very tedious process that takes a lot of patience and perhaps years, but if the end result is good, it's really fun. I used to buy big lots of uncleaned coins, and still have 70-80 coins that are works in progress. </p><p>Cleaning silver is different, I think. You will easily get hairlines, even with a soft brush. If you decide to clean them, let the water or oil do most of the work, and only brush where the layer of dirt is thick. There was recently a great thread here about using different chemicals when cleaning silver coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="svessien, post: 4179721, member: 15481"]With bronze coins, I use distilled water or olive oil bath, let them dry, gently brush them with a small brush. I use the kinds of brushes you'd use for painting on a canvas. Some of them I have cut down to make them a bit hard, others are broad and soft. After having taken off the dirt that was loose enough to come off, the coins go back in the bath again, to repeat the procedure. It is a very tedious process that takes a lot of patience and perhaps years, but if the end result is good, it's really fun. I used to buy big lots of uncleaned coins, and still have 70-80 coins that are works in progress. Cleaning silver is different, I think. You will easily get hairlines, even with a soft brush. If you decide to clean them, let the water or oil do most of the work, and only brush where the layer of dirt is thick. There was recently a great thread here about using different chemicals when cleaning silver coins.[/QUOTE]
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