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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Macromius, post: 7889733, member: 90772&quot;]My strategy: Dig it off, or out of there, with a toothpick or a pin, carefully. Put it on a piece of aluminum foil and bake it in the oven 375 degrees for 30 minutes. Let it cool but treat with Verdicare while still warm. I&#039;ve never had any problems with baking though it can change the color of some patinas. Unless you make your own, the distilled waiter treatment is flawed. That&#039;s because store bought distilled water is rarely 100% what it says it is. Plastic flips are a great breeding ground for bronze disease judging from the number of infected coins I&#039;ve bought in flips. Of course some bronze disease is terminal if it&#039;s gotten way down into a porous coin. I recently bought a coin that had bronze disease under the patina though maybe this coin was painted to disguise it. I only use sodium sesquicarbonate in extreme cases. (That&#039;s a whole &#039;nother lesson.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people are so freaked out by BD that they will dump an expensive coin with a couple of spots on Ebay for pennies. When you can proudly say, &quot;Bronze disease doesn&#039;t scare me!,&quot; you have truly become a serious ancient coin aficionado. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you disagree with anything I&#039;ve said then go with what you know. I don&#039;t give a fig.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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