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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LaCointessa, post: 3363940, member: 87186&quot;]Fun.</p><p>I would love to &#039;tidy&#039; them.&nbsp; I certainly would not wet them. I can give you more ideas about how to &#039;tidy&#039; your coins but i would recommend that you do not do anything more at this point than this:&nbsp; get a baby toothbrush - (not a metal brush - not an adult hard toothbrush) - and then gently in circular soft strokes that end off the coin, give the coins the first phase of tidying. I would say that about 10 strokes for each coin is enough for the first side. You don&#039;t want to heat up the coin in your hand or by stroking it with a brush. Once you give a side of a coin about 10 strokes, sit it down and do one side of the next coin.&nbsp; When you finish all 5 coins then go back to the first and do the &#039;other&#039; side of that coin and so forth.&nbsp; When you finish, then you are ready to photograph them and see what differences you notice.&nbsp; Then if you see progress, you may repeat that process.&nbsp; Let us see your progress.&nbsp; Will be interesting. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would photograph each of the coins separately and after each stage of tidying, photograph the coin again and identify the photograph so that you know after which stage of tidying that photograph was taken.</p><p>I would put each coin in a separate envelope on which I would note exactly what has been done to each coin, the date and anything else interesting especially as to possible attribution ideas.</p><p>I am thinking they are Roman.</p><p>Where&#039;d you happen to get em?</p><p>Can you take a photograph of the &#039;other&#039; sides of the coins? And position them so that they match up with how you have them laid out here. In other words, so that we know which is the other side to which coin shown here?</p><p><br /></p><p>and, Welcome to CoinTalk.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of our expert ancient coin collectors should come by and probably, just from what you are showing, will be able to give you some ideas.&nbsp; I have some ideas but will wait for those more knowledgeable than I.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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