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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;georgiansilver, post: 483049, member: 15758&quot;]<i>I am very new to this and although I already knew that coins should not be cleaned I accepted that it was for the same reason that silver, bronze, pewter, copper antiques (which I have had a lot of experience of) should not be cleaned... because they grow a &#039;patina&#039; of their own which demonstrates their age. If all such antiques were cleaned regularly, they would be easy to reproduce as they would appear much more &quot;NEW&quot; than they ought to.&nbsp; Therefore I am for not cleaning them as you cannot reproduce age as easily as you can with a coin that has been cleaned.</i></p><p><i>Best wishes, Mike.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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