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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 4223641, member: 73165&quot;]That was my first thought as well. I wouldn’t clean it myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the coin itself goes, the horn silver detracts a little, but it still retains good eye appeal. Other than that, the scratches on the reverse in the right field and the crack across the helmet are also a little distracting to me. If you paid accordingly for a coin with a couple problems, then I think you did a fine job selecting your first owl.</p><p><br /></p><p>One other thing to add: it looks like the surface might be a bit crystallized in places. If so, you might have further crystallization inside the coin, so handle it carefully and don’t drop it on a hard surface. Crystallized silver is quite brittle and might actually be the source of the obverse crack.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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