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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;phankins11, post: 2056741, member: 70703&quot;]It could have been washed in Fluoroantimonic acid and wouldn&#039;t matter to me...these coins were handled by our founding fathers, for the sole purpose of saying &quot;We put these here so you would know we existed!&quot;...I&#039;ll take&#039;m!</p><p><br /></p><p>Ok well maybe not Fluoroantimonic acid, that would have likely damaged the coin to the point of just being a metal disk if anything survived. Point being, cleaned or not, these coins would be, and are, way desirable. Not from a numismatic standpoint in the purest sense, but just because of who placed them there.</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is this, these weren&#039;t placed in this time capsule, or even re-buried in 1855 for numismatic purposes. It was to preserve the history of the moment. You don&#039;t need an MS-65 coin to do that, especially when you are putting it in a box which would not be able to protect them completely from the elements. Knowing that, the folks who cleaned them were probably thinking the same thing...not trying to preserve the numismatic value but remove corrosion so someone who un-buried it in the future would know what it was. I would hope, if they get re-buried, that they are put in an air-tight, or some sort of protective to preserve the way it is now, but prevent further damage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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