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<p>[QUOTE="ValiantKnight, post: 2695368, member: 44210"]I bought this because it looked like it was going to be an easy cleaning job like how my Carolingian denier from Venice was (a quarter of the dirt practically slid off after like 15 minutes). Unfortunately this turned out not to be the case here. The lemon juice I was using had seemingly had no effect after 12 hours, but a few parts of the black encrustation did weaken. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of it remains however, and not only this, but in a few places on the edge the silver seems to be at risk of flaking off, as I found out the hard way when I took most of the top part off of the T in OPTIMO on the reverse when scraping the black stuff in that area with my fingernail. After, I kept it in for another two days with no effect. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm sharing this in the hopes that I could please get help on what my next move should be in cleaning it. Anything better than lemon juice out there to remove tough black gunk on silver? Should I just leave it longer in lemon juice. Really appreciate any help.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Before:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]605484[/ATTACH] </p><p>After:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]605485[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ValiantKnight, post: 2695368, member: 44210"]I bought this because it looked like it was going to be an easy cleaning job like how my Carolingian denier from Venice was (a quarter of the dirt practically slid off after like 15 minutes). Unfortunately this turned out not to be the case here. The lemon juice I was using had seemingly had no effect after 12 hours, but a few parts of the black encrustation did weaken. Most of it remains however, and not only this, but in a few places on the edge the silver seems to be at risk of flaking off, as I found out the hard way when I took most of the top part off of the T in OPTIMO on the reverse when scraping the black stuff in that area with my fingernail. After, I kept it in for another two days with no effect. I'm sharing this in the hopes that I could please get help on what my next move should be in cleaning it. Anything better than lemon juice out there to remove tough black gunk on silver? Should I just leave it longer in lemon juice. Really appreciate any help. Before: [ATTACH=full]605484[/ATTACH] After: [ATTACH=full]605485[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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