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<p>[QUOTE="NOS, post: 158153, member: 2098"]Electrolysis should be left to the professionals. Back when I was into buying "uncleaned Ancient Roman coins" I got into electrolysis and I had very few positive results. It often takes away all of the patina on a coin and on quite afew it ate away the outer layers of the metal so I thought it was dirt and would try and clean that off! Now a good portion of those coins which survived intact for the last 1800 years in the ground look hideous and very abrasive after just a few minutes and are worthless. Olive oil and a toothbrush is really the only way amateurs such as myself should go, or not at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NOS, post: 158153, member: 2098"]Electrolysis should be left to the professionals. Back when I was into buying "uncleaned Ancient Roman coins" I got into electrolysis and I had very few positive results. It often takes away all of the patina on a coin and on quite afew it ate away the outer layers of the metal so I thought it was dirt and would try and clean that off! Now a good portion of those coins which survived intact for the last 1800 years in the ground look hideous and very abrasive after just a few minutes and are worthless. Olive oil and a toothbrush is really the only way amateurs such as myself should go, or not at all.[/QUOTE]
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