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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dimeguy, post: 8310214, member: 19855&quot;]*picking up a shield to defend against all the tomatoes that will be thrown*</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure! Clean it! Yes, as stated above the general rule of numismatic appreciation is to not clean. However, from the original post it sounds like this is something you and your son are doing together...hopefully putting together a Mercury dime album. (A boy could be so lucky!) Who among us hasn&#039;t cleaned a buffalo or some other coin to get a date read? Lastly, it is a common date Mercury dime. If you really want to &quot;buy&quot; a nice coin, go on ebay and buy an MS one for $15-20. Besides, from the look of it, this coin already has one foot in the grave. I don&#039;t think cleaning it will dramatically affect the value and if it helps your son to appreciate a date and mint mark of a dime he is putting in an album, who cares? Clean it, but be sure to educate along the way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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