Fred, if I said the sky was blue, you'd set me straight: it's cyan, with white obstructions. I can hardly wait to see how you rip into my next coin. I suspect I won't have to wait long; I'll be posting it right after I send this one out.
I wouldn't be surprised if the idiot tried it on one or two. I can easily see him lifting the basket out of the acid and going, "Uh-oh, didn't turn out like I expected." He'd need to have been several orders of magnitude more idiotic to do one with a wire brush, see the results, and then decide to keep doing the rest of them.