Silver Denarius found today at rally

[JohnF]

I began cleaning them with a 50/50 mix of olive oil and lemon juice but found that after a few minutes all the olive oil was sitting on top of the lemon juice so i ended up just using pure lemon juice, taking the coins out every few hours and giving them a gentle rub with a cotton bud dipped in the lemon juice. Some of the coins came clean after an overnight soak, whereas others too a few days to clean.
I know that many will reel at the thought of leaving a coin soaking in lemon jiuce, but a lot of the coins were heavily encrusted and this was the only way to get them clean.
I know that a collector would probably frown at this but as i have no intention to sell them then to me leaving them encrusted wasnt ideal. Heres a few more pics.

[Chef Geoff]

That was a lovely find John, I remember seeing it in the mags, didn't you find them with the XT70 if I remember right?

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

arrrr  nice coins, oh yes, i have heard of the lemon juice for that encrustation ,  it brought them up great

[wayno]

My coin after a bit of cleaning

[Roman (Ray)]

WWWOOWW WELLDONE WAYNO LOVELY DENARIUS MUCKER..

[colin]

i found a roman denari a while ago that i thought might be a forgery and when i got the report back from cardiff museum it was a genuine denari and not a copy and that had staining on it as well heres a pic.

[rjm]

i found a roman denari a while ago that i thought might be a forgery and when i got the report back from cardiff museum it was a genuine denari and not a copy and that had staining on it as well heres a pic.

Should clean up nice.