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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aaron Apfel, post: 4424339, member: 67415&quot;]Hi guys, it has been a long time since I have posted anything on this forum or even interacted with my ancient coins. I put the hobby aside a few years ago and have recently (during lockdown) been digging through my uncleaned ancients again looking to clean and identify them again. However, I am really concerned that bronze disease may have spread across some of them as they were kept in the same containers. Most of these aren&#039;t really worth much but some of them may have some nice detail underneath the crud allowing them to be identifiable. In the past these were left to soak in distilled water (a lot of them within the same container), some containers I had actually forgotten about and were left soaking for a long time; although I did eventually empty the water out and left them be in the containers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have photographed four coins as a sample although there are a few more that I am suspect of. I&#039;m sorry the pictures aren&#039;t great, I haven&#039;t got a professional camera just my phone, but hopefully you can see what I&#039;m talking about. I tried to get a shot of them under my crappy microscope too. </p><p><br /></p><p>Top right I have no idea as of yet, top left looks to be a Thyateira in Lydia (identifiable by what looks like an Apollo Axe), Seleucid Greek bottom left, and some other Greek bottom right. As you can see, top right has a nasty green concretion, the others have what looks like areas of greenish patina or dirt (I am unsure if this is BD)? </p><p><br /></p><p>If this is in fact bronze disease, what methods can I use at home to get rid of it or stop it from spreading/worsening?</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope you guys can provide some insight. I expect I&#039;ll be making more posts in the coming days as I struggle to identify some of my old coins! Cheers[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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