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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 63270, member: 708&quot;]Here&#039;s an analogy.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have an archaeological artefact. Lets say it&#039;s an Egyptian statue carved on the top of a column.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where does it look better; in a museum, or left in a tomb in Egypt where it&#039;s still in it&#039;s context? Cleaning a coin simply destroys it much the same way that prising the statue from it&#039;s column to ship it to London for the museum would be considered vandalism.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 19th century and even up until present much of Egypt&#039;s archaeology and past has been vandalised, ripped open, demolished and reconstructed in museums because it looks good in a collection. The truth is though is this really making it look better and preserving it for other generations? Same with coins is cleaning them really helping to save history?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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