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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 799974, member: 6036&quot;]Well, it&#039;s more Art than Good Science; more hunch and experience than anything else.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For one thing - there is much dirt and crud in recessed / protected areas, such as folds of drapery, &#039;twixt bow and stems, and within letters. Cleaning gets stuff off of flat surfaces such as fields and open areas of relief (i.e. cheeks etc) but fails in recessed / protected areas, so that suggests cleaning.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Cleaning commonly leaves a very strange brassy look which is obviously wrong on 200 year old copper, so folks use a variety of methods to recolor it - kinda like Artificial Toning. This also leaves unnatural color, just not as bad.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One thing to remember is many photos show color very different from the coin itself; in fact, viewing the same photo on different computer monitors shows different color. My avatar looks nowhere near as hip as the actual coin, and it&#039;s possible the same is true of the OP coin. It might be natural color, but the <i>photo</i> doesn&#039;t look right to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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