Recently I was getting pretty frustrated with my coin cleaning skills. Before flinging the lot out the back door, I decided that perhaps
part of the problem was the coins I was starting with, so I bought a few that were not the bottom of the barrel cleaners.
First, I was shocked that when they arrived, I could actually see things on some of the coins! I was afraid to even touch them... I finally understood what you guys meant by identifying the coin BEFORE cleaning, if possible. I
had never even been able to tell it was a coin before cleaning it (and often after cleaning it, as well). Second, I now understand why you would bother soaking it in distilled water and gently brushing it. I usually could beat them with a hammer and it wouldn't really matter.
On the downside, it is obvious that some of these have been scratched at already (Licinius's
face was partly showing and seems to have some scratches) and there won't be cool surprises in the batch that no one has laid eyes on before... so I am not quite ready to give up the old crunchies yet!
Anyway, to get to the point... I now have a new problem I haven't faced before...
I have cleaned two of them that look totally awesome to me, but I was wondering if there is anything to do about the rough bumpiness, particularly on the
reverse of this coin? Is there any way to smooth it out and make it look shiny (I don't mean metal shiny)?
It was even easy to ID this coin (except that the closest one I saw is supposed to have an A over the III and I think mine looks like a II instead... )
Sorry for being wordy, but this is AWESOME!
