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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 667601, member: 19463&quot;]My guess is wire brush cleaning but we used to throw around a term &#039;brick cleaned&#039; which was a slam at archaeologists that would find a coin and rub it on a brick until they could make out the legends and date the coin.&nbsp; After all, a coin found tends to date a site and that information is much more valuable to one mindset than the coin itself.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Considering some of the things some people do to uncleaned ancients, the wire brush seems mild.&nbsp; Consider also the possibility that the finder did not realize the lump of encrustation contained a soft silver coin rather than a more rugged bronze that he was accustomed to finding.&nbsp; Obviously this is a horridly abused coin but I have seen worse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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