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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3782079, member: 10461"]Hm. Wasn't obvious to me at all. Any bearded portrait there I saw (and I didn't), I would have simply put down to my own pareidolia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good idea about the pocket-carry suggestion, but if I tried that, I'd only end up losing the thing and/or finding it in the washing machine later (if at all).</p><p><br /></p><p>The one time I tried using a rock tumbler on an uncleaned ancient coin lot, I got mixed (mostly decent) results. I was using beach sand as a tumbling medium, but not for an extended amount of time- just 12-36 hours or so. I've heard sawdust or crushed pecan shells can be a good tumbling medium over longer periods, but never tried them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3782079, member: 10461"]Hm. Wasn't obvious to me at all. Any bearded portrait there I saw (and I didn't), I would have simply put down to my own pareidolia. Good idea about the pocket-carry suggestion, but if I tried that, I'd only end up losing the thing and/or finding it in the washing machine later (if at all). The one time I tried using a rock tumbler on an uncleaned ancient coin lot, I got mixed (mostly decent) results. I was using beach sand as a tumbling medium, but not for an extended amount of time- just 12-36 hours or so. I've heard sawdust or crushed pecan shells can be a good tumbling medium over longer periods, but never tried them.[/QUOTE]
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