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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 2748682, member: 87200&quot;]I was curious if anybody has some suggestions on how to clean crusty roman coins. I searched the Internet and found various ways of using olive oil to clean them up. Soaking them for up to several months in an olive oil bath and then using a dental pick to carefully remove the debris. </p><p><br /></p><p>I tried this and I was dissatisfied with the results, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn&#039;t. Sometimes they are just so crusty that the debris of the ages is just too tough to remove. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another method is the olive oil hot-pot, requiring you to heat up the coins in olive oil on the stove and add a little lemon juice. I have not tried this method yet. </p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly there is the suggestion to use liquid descaler for about 24 hours of immersion time and then wash the coins with distilled water. I found this method to be somewhat destructive and sometimes obliterated portraits and legends, as well as reverses. </p><p><br /></p><p>So I am basically unimpressed with these methodologies and have decided for the time being to forgo efforts to clean them up. Sometimes it appears that the best thing to do with these crusties is simply to attribute them without attempts to clean, leaving the residue of the ages intact.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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