Cleaning an Ancient Coin [Timelapse] 1500% speed.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- Cool Timelapse of long and patient process of restoring a dirty bronze ancient coin. For obvious reasons, nobody should be restoring a coin this quickly without the power of video editing.
View full, regular speed cleaning process here: • Cleaning an Ancient Br...
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is it all dirt or did some of that stuff come from the metal-related chemical reaction?
Hi! Great Question.
Mostly it is all encrusted dirt that has been impacted over millennia. A coin like this, with a nice strong dark patina likely spent a thousand + years in a desert/dry climate field. In the before and after picture you'll see two main types of substance, a brown and light green. The brown is 100% impacted sand/dirt ONTOP on the strong patina of the coin (This is best case scenario). Unfortunately, the light green stuff is a soap like substance that appears to have stopped the formation of a patina were it lay. Wherever it was the patina was not. This required extra care to remove because I was interacting with the underlying coin.
For a regular person's eyes, it became something very beautiful!
I have a question. I'm pretty sure these ideas thought many times, but can you use a special micro sand blaster with very very fine particles or micro pressure washer with special cleaning liquid?
I know nothing about coin restorations. Just an idea!
Try electrolysis better outcome and much much faster and time is money.
V interesting, thank you. 👍
That was good work, coin looks very good afterward.
Thanks. Glad you liked it. Cleaning is a controversial thing in Ancient forums, but if done right its very great not only for eye appeal but for preservation and protection against bronze disease (ren wax after cleaning).
Controversy mainly comes from those who try to take short cut and ruin coins in cleaning process. Very sad to see coins ruined by those taking short cuts or using chemicals.
I'd also high recommend a stereo microscope for cleaning if you go that route. You can get decent ones for 200 usd, only need 20-40x zoom. It improves that accuracy and quality of cleans by 1000%. I cringe looking at coins I cleaned before microscope, now looking at them under microscope. So many scratches. Live and learn.
@@admemeoriam yeah, it comes from both sides. Some people think you should never use metal tools, but they don't realize it's how most professional cleaning is done (at least AEs in priv. colls.).
Personally, I never had a soft touch so I rarely used metal tools. But now I want to try again! (I still have ~20 lbs of leftover uncleaned Roman from the '00s-'10s, plus many that could use a "touch up.")
If people have the talent & patience & tools to do it well, this technique is the way!
@@admemeoriam 100% good advice!
@@JacksonJacobsNumismatics ~20lbs of uncleaned. Nice! Probably a few gems in there! I'd also recommend a diamond dusted "pin" tool for cleaning. The tinier the tip of the tool, the slower and more accurately you will work under microscope. Using weight of tool alone slowly removing dirt from areas that you suspect have strong underlying patina can result in great outcomes.
The main important variable is patience and knowing when to stop. Check out my full video on how absolutely slow it is to clean this with every movement being calculated. Results make it worth it!!
This seems long for a 3.6 second video.
tools?
Where do you purchase these uncleaned coins from?
Almost looks like human skin buildup when he scrapes it off
what tool did you use ? have link for shoop it? nice restoration
Hi, glad you liked the video. I use a diamond dusted "pin" multi-tool with replaceable pins.
@@admemeoriam ya nice,have 1 link for it?where to buy?
@@Susan_HunTer If you search "diamond dusted pin set" on google you will see several examples from coin websites selling this tool. I won't push one link or another in attempt to get cut. If you buy this tool be very careful will it, its very harsh on coins. Would recommend microscope first if you don't already have one.