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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kentucky, post: 1440698, member: 33176&quot;]Was looking for a thread about cleaning ancients and ran across this.&nbsp; Just wanted to add a few thoughts.&nbsp; &quot;the coins were issued by millions&quot;&nbsp; &quot;with ancients, each one is unique&quot; Uh...ancient coins of some kinds were issued in the millions over long periods of time, so none of them is really more unique than some modern error issues.&nbsp; Also, the coins stored in hoards tended to be silver and gold coins which people did not carry for daily purchases, so burying them was a poor mans bank (I saw a survivoralist program recently where this dude was burying silver dimes in irrigation tubing so he could come back after the END OF CIVILIZATION and pick them up).&nbsp; My understanding is that this makes some copper/bronze issues harder to find than some gold or silver ones.&nbsp; I have a few copper ancients and enjoy them as much, if not more, than my modern issues (post 1500).&nbsp; If anyone has a link to a good cleaning procedure, I would appreciate it.&nbsp; Also any sources of uncleaned ancients that is reputable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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