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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 2772012, member: 87200&quot;]Ahh, interesting topic. I tried my hand at cleaning and have been partially happy with the results. I think the best results came out with distilled water on just very dusty or muddy coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>I tried olive oil on some for a few days and then removed the crud with a dental pick. This worked OK but only on mildly crusty coins. Some folks say you have to soak them in olive oil for a year or more. I&#039;m too impatient for that, plus the olive imparts a dark brown color making it more difficult to see the features on the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also read somewhere about liquid descaler which is intended to clean up copper pipes. I did a soak of about 70 very crusty coins in the descaler. While it removed the crud (you could even see the crud bubbling off the coins) after I washed them in distilled water following a 24 hour soak I was a bit shocked. One came out clean, the rest of them had the features rub off under my fingers while I rinsed them in distilled water. Very disheartening. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve read about ammonia and acetone, too, but haven&#039;t tried these substances. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think in the future about the only cleaning I will do is the distilled water for probably as little as a few minutes, gently rubbing off the dirt with my fingers. I&#039;ve resolved to spend more money for higher quality coins in the future, rather than hoping for hidden gems to show up. Anyway, good luck with it [USER=87186]@LaCointessa[/USER]...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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