More Crusty Coins.....

CRUSADER · Nov 19, 2009

After my experiment with electrolysis & the crusty Roman Coin. I decided to look through all my other pile of scrappies.

After experimenting with many that showed limited results I rescued 2 more from the junk pile & added them to the Albums. 1 with an obverse type I've never had. Both coins were like the before shot with nothing visible on both sides.

I've learnt a lot about which coins need this treatment & which will never benefit.

These were the only 2 good ones out of about 2000 I looked at, so my first choice coin was a lucky strike 8) Still it meant adding another 2 nice coins to the proper collection.

WhiteHunter · Nov 19, 2009

nice pile of coins they came out really good :icon_thumright:

amzing you couldn't even see the coin before

CAgem · Nov 19, 2009

I do some metal detecting in the UK. I've found some 'scrappies' and regretted that I had no way to clean them. So how DO you determine which will clean and which will not?

CRUSADER · Nov 19, 2009

CAgem said:
I do some metal detecting in the UK. I've found some 'scrappies' and regretted that I had no way to clean them. So how DO you determine which will clean and which will not?

Basically, they need to have been lost in good condition (hard to tell prior to cleaning) but need to have a sandy like build up which under normal cleaning conditions is impossible to clean off (cement like).

seger98 · Nov 19, 2009

Wow, you've done an excellent job of cleaning those two coins up.

phantomfinder · Nov 19, 2009

WOW , Can I have one . ::)

Very nice coins , WTG :icon_thumleft:

shaun7 · Nov 19, 2009

Good results, who would have thought they would come out like that :icon_thumleft:

Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.) · Nov 20, 2009

love those coins

Rusted_Iron · Nov 20, 2009

Very nice! Quite a surprise there, compared to the "before" photo.

Hidden_Realm · Nov 20, 2009

Very work on cleaning as it came out great. That's one big pile of coins you have and wish mine looked like that.

ivan salis · Nov 20, 2009

mmm roman coins -- stuck here in the states no romans to find that I know of. pity --that bag of "scrappies" as you call looks mighty good to me

DavidBeard · Nov 21, 2009

Wow! Great 'before' and 'after' - Have you rubbed some oil into them after to bring them up that dark?
You getting the rain down there? Really bad up here - I've resorted to visiting charity shops and ebay these last few days instead of the fields

CRUSADER · Nov 21, 2009

DavidBeard said:
Wow! Great 'before' and 'after' - Have you rubbed some oil into them after to bring them up that dark?
You getting the rain down there? Really bad up here - I've resorted to visiting charity shops and ebay these last few days instead of the fields

no the process makes them dark

half-serious · Nov 23, 2009

Those are nice but I'm kinda disappointed

I thought out of the thousands of scrappies you have, there would be albums full of reclaimed ones.
Since I expected that, I knew you would be running out of spoons so I was getting all my old Uri Geller spoons ready to send.
Did you have to go away and 'forget' about these like you did the first one to get them to turn out this good?

BTW, I read somewhere that when you use salt in electrolysis, chlorine gas is given off (that's for the benefit of those who would try electrolysis inside) :P and the writer suggested that baking soda should be used instead.

CRUSADER · Nov 24, 2009

half-serious said:
Those are nice but I'm kinda disappointed

I thought out of the thousands of scrappies you have, there would be albums full of reclaimed ones.
Since I expected that, I knew you would be running out of spoons so I was getting all my old Uri Geller spoons ready to send.
Did you have to go away and 'forget' about these like you did the first one to get them to turn out this good?

BTW, I read somewhere that when you use salt in electrolysis, chlorine gas is given off (that's for the benefit of those who would try electrolysis inside) :P and the writer suggested that baking soda should be used instead.

I knew I wouldn't have that many as most off them are eaten up by our poor soil conditions & the years of farm chemicials.

Its did take a mimium of 3 hours

Thanks for the baking Soda idea, although its safe as I use a very small tub with only a tiny amount of salt & I'm not in the room at the time.