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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CygnusCC, post: 24497154, member: 120299&quot;]I received this Argentinean Dos Centavos as part of a random world coin set and saw that it had some pretty significant verdigris. I thought this would be a prime opportunity to experiment a bit.</p><p><br /></p><p>The original coin was this:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1552776[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I sent it through a few cycles of my ultrasonic cleaner with distilled water and a small drop of dish washing liquid. My cleaner only runs in 2 minute intervals, so probably 30 minutes total. Lots of restarts between 5 minute cool downs - it&#039;s a cheap model cleaner.</p><p><br /></p><p>After a final distilled water rinse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1552777[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then I applied the Verdi-care. I started around the denticles since that appeared to be the majority, but then lightly spread it to the motto with a q-tip. Then I got impatient and applied it to the whole coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I finished with an acetone soak/wash at the end, but I&#039;m not sure that was needed. I was just looking at the scary &#039;if this touches your skin&#039; warnings and wanted to sluice the thing down. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1552778[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I was never able to completely remove the verdigris above the D in libertad, but all in all I&#039;m pretty happy with the final result.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry for the color differences, my USB camera doesn&#039;t retain the settings between runs so I had to eyeball it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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