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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1499595, member: 26302&quot;]Yes, its a decent link. There are also a couple of groups on Yahoo groups that are good.</p><p><br /></p><p>The short answer to cleaning ancients would be use distilled water and time as your greatest ally. Distilled water is free this time of year from dehumidifiers and AC runoff. For scraping on the coins, only use brass and softer. I made a sharp pointer and a scraper from brass purchased as sticks from a hobby shop. Also, a stiff plastic brush can be good, (I use a denture toothbrush with the bristles cut down), and a brass brush.</p><p><br /></p><p>By using softer than bronze materials you will not likely scratch the bronze. This works only for bronze coins, silvered or silver coins are completely different. All I ever did with those were water and plastic bristle brushing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many recommend olive oil, but I mainly found the effects that were different than distilled water being it darkens coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thats about all I have. I cleaned a few hundred but found out I was just not interested enough in late romans for it to be interesting to me. That is why I have many left uncleaned. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Its not for everyone, but if its for you, go for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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