Ancient Coin Blog

This is a blog written by someone, Jerry, who is a retired art prof and is very involved in the uncleaned ancient coin hobby. He runs a yahoo group called Coin Zappers.

He advocates using electrolysis to clean ancient coins, which means hooking the coins to one end of a battery, hooking a paper clip to the other end, and then putting the coin and the paper clip into a solution bath (water and a few household chemicals). This removes the surface encrustation (lime, calcium) that has gathered on the coin from being in the ground for 1000+ years. It sounds dangerous for the coin, but it is the same technique most museums use.

To see the Ancient Coin blog click here.