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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3197424, member: 112&quot;]That&#039;s because it is wax <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Over the centuries collectors have used a great many different things in an effort to try and protect their coins. Most of which, also over the centuries, have been discovered or decided to be bad ideas, and for various reasons. But even today, opinions on this matter still vary, and sometimes greatly.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not just the salt, it&#039;s everything, including the air itself. All coins will deteriorate if left exposed to air. But with saltwater artifacts, yes salt makes it worse, and so does the encrustation. But the biggie is the interaction between both of those and the air because the air causes the salt and encrustation to accelerate deterioration even more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would wax slow it down, even stop it ? Not really. Sure the wax would seal off the air from getting to the coin, but the salt and encrustation would still be there doing their damage. </p><p><br /></p><p>You also have to consider how much wax would it take to cover something like these specific coins - the blob of wax would be so large you couldn&#039;t even tell it was coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wax is only a viable option when the coin is just the coin - not an object covered with large encrustations, or covered with anything for that matter. The point I&#039;m trying to make here is that if you broke the coins apart, cleaned all foreign material from them - then and only then could wax do any good. And even then, it is highly questionable if it even is good. A great many do not think it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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