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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JayAg47, post: 7581782, member: 112342&quot;]I got this coin back in December, and upon receiving it I just dipped in acetone to remove the dirt and the green stuff.</p><p>Seller&#039;s image, the ugliest coin I bought for 100 bucks![ATTACH=full]1306564[/ATTACH]</p><p>So to make it worth my money, I decided to do a proper cleaning, I again treated it with acetone, used lemon juice and scraped the encrustations and dirt with toothpick, then again treated it with acetone and lemon juice, finally dropping it in an aluminium foil covered bowl containing hot water &amp; sodium bicarbonate, after it cooled down I lightly cleaned it with a steel wool (I can hear you guys cringing <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).</p><p>And this is the result,[ATTACH=full]1306571[/ATTACH]</p><p>I didn&#039;t go full on scraping the tarnish as I wanted to have some contrast for the imagery. Commemorative coin of Uttama Chola (970-985 AD), shows the conquest of the neighboring kingdoms of Chera, and Pandya, depicted as the royal emblems-Cholan tiger, flanked by the Pandyan twin fish to its right, and the Cheran bow behind the tiger, all under the single rule symbolized by the umbrella, flanked by two lamps on the either side to denote auspiciousness. And the legends in Nagari states, Uttama Chola.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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