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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ArtDeco, post: 24843824, member: 119259&quot;]I have news folks!</p><p><br /></p><p>After a 48 hour soak in the warm/heated sodium thiosulphate solution, I decided to take it out of the solution and wash it with hot water.......and to my suprise, it looks like some of the deposits are gone!</p><p>I then took a wooden toothpick and wondered what would happen if I tried to remove the deposits in certain areas and looks like the material slowly came off the coin!</p><p>I guess what happened was that the reddish deposits started softening up in the heated sodium thiosulphate solution as some of the iron oxides that were in the mix were breaking off the deposits, weakening its hold onto the coin. I guess all I needed was a longer soak in a heated solution and patience for the deposit to soften/weaken....</p><p><br /></p><p>I tried my best to remove all the deposits off the whole coin but some tiny spec of areas are still hard as a rock and won&#039;t budge, I used my illuminated handheld magnified lens to help me view the areas while I was removing material with the toothpick. I also had a small bowl of warm water to constantly dip the coin in it once I removed material and then I focused on other areas of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Overall, the majority of the reddish deposits are gone save for a few specs throughout the coin and there isn&#039;t that much in the way of pitting from the areas I fixed, so I can also say I&#039;m quite lucky.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the coin now! (sorry again for the bad lighting)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/vp6lzge.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/OpP5CzA.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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