At Dirty Old Coins we are obsessed with "uncleaned" ancient Roman coins! We hope some of this excitement rubs off on you too as you become the first to restore a coin last used over 1,500 years ago. Last used, perhaps, to buy a meal or admission into a theater or maybe even to bribe an official!

These uncleaned coins will challenge your patience as you free the coin from its dirt cocoon over the course of days, weeks or perhaps even months. They will captivate you as you wonder how it was lost, who may have last held it, why it was even lost in the first place. Was it the last desperate act of a Roman trying to hide his wealth from the tax collector? Was it ritually abandoned to gain favor from a feared god? Or perhaps lost by a youth on his way to fulfilling an errand?

Will your coin belong to the great Constantinian dynasty of the 300's who introduced Christianity to the Roman empire? Or perhaps a runaway emperor who attempted to upset the incumbent but failed and then fell into obscurity? Or perhaps not an emperor at all but of a Roman woman or an emperor's son or even a fictional being?