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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2467286, member: 26302&quot;]Of course most ancients are not &quot;all original&quot;. The only coins that could ever be collectible straight from the ground are gold coins. EVERYTHING else has been cleaned already. A lot of that cleaning was done with brass. Rose thorns do not cut it for most ancients.</p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly, I believe the OP&#039;s coin might do better with a thinner patina anyway. I would need to see it in hand, but many ancients develop way too thick of a patina, and the patina obscures details underneath. A great many coins are improved by removing part of the patina.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I don&#039;t know about your skills in improving modern coins, they could be spectacular, but for ancients many times removing patinas, using sharp tools, etc are part of the improvement process.</p><p><br /></p><p>Doug&#039;s points are valid. You never know about brushes until you test them on coins. I don&#039;t even really use brushes, I use sharpened pieces of brass if I need to get serious about something on a coin and wood, plastic, distilled water, etc have failed. I think it was just [USER=24314]@Insider[/USER] seeming to make fun of the idea of using brass as some kind of barbaric act that set me off. Ancient collector conserve our coins a different way, we have much more severe problems to deal with, than collectors of modern coins do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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