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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 2749954, member: 87200&quot;]Actually the altar looks a bit better when cleaned, more detail. I had some success with 4th century bronze pieces with layers of crud - some of the GLORIA EXERCITVS pieces of Constantine II, Constans, and Constantius II where the reverses cleaned up nicely. I used the olive oil treatment followed by careful scraping with a dental pick, but I agree with [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER] that the coins seemed to darken and take on a brown coloration, not totally desirable. And an AE1 of Jovian, which was encrusted with green crud. I elected not to clean an AE1 of Julian with the Apis bull on the reverse, about F condition. Kind of a nice coin without cleaning. My days of buying uncleaned hoards might be over.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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