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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7903692, member: 19463"]Two important skills in cleaning coins are selecting 'battles' that you can win and knowing when to stop. Dirt washes off but surfaces corroded and already eroded below the original surface level do not. You might clean this one down to metal but you will not have a nice coin. We see here many coins shown as cleaning successes that are horrible looking. You can remove things from the surfaces of a coin but, when the surfaces have been removed, they are gone forever. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the record, I have never seen a coin cleaned in olive oil that I really liked. Exhaust all other water based ideas first. A dealer once showed me a coin of Uranius Antoninus he was carrying in his pocket along with his modern 'spending' change. His idea was, slowly, to wear it down to a smooth 'fine' from the rough 'very fine' it was then. Today, many people accept poor surfaces better than we did then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7903692, member: 19463"]Two important skills in cleaning coins are selecting 'battles' that you can win and knowing when to stop. Dirt washes off but surfaces corroded and already eroded below the original surface level do not. You might clean this one down to metal but you will not have a nice coin. We see here many coins shown as cleaning successes that are horrible looking. You can remove things from the surfaces of a coin but, when the surfaces have been removed, they are gone forever. For the record, I have never seen a coin cleaned in olive oil that I really liked. Exhaust all other water based ideas first. A dealer once showed me a coin of Uranius Antoninus he was carrying in his pocket along with his modern 'spending' change. His idea was, slowly, to wear it down to a smooth 'fine' from the rough 'very fine' it was then. Today, many people accept poor surfaces better than we did then.[/QUOTE]
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