MINERAL OIL EXPERIMENT
I have seen a couple references to using mineral oil as a soaking medium. I have seen some after scans, and it looks like the coins came out pretty nicely. There were no before scans, and no reference in the time involved though. So, I looked up some livestock websites, and found a gallon of mineral oil for around $13 ppd. I'll check them in a week or so. Here's the before scans of coins that I just received today. They are "normal" quality, so have a good assortment of different soils, encrustations etc. A mad scientist's perfect test subjects!

 

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