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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 218282, member: 4373&quot;]Yes you can tell. It&#039;s just that you haven&#039;t looked at it throughly with a hand lens. After a few tries, you perhaps will understand that no matter how hard you try to clean coins, the conclusion is, there is no such thing as miracle cleaners. Only experts know how to handle this and there is a good reason why conservation is a very difficult and restricted field. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;You should do some experiment with some cheap coins that you pull from circuation. Rather than believing us, the best thing to do is to experiment and convience that it isn&#039;t necessary the case that cleaning coins are easy to disguise. </p><p><br /></p><p>Realistically, if your coin have been pulled from circulation, chances are that it has scratches, wears and such. If it is in a shiny condition with such scratches and wear, I would highly doubt that&#039;s possible that it&#039;s not cleaned and yet has those condition. Furthermore, by cleaning silver coins using vinegar and such, most of the time, after you give it a period of time, the surface WILL oxidize, most of the time turning into ugly toning which is rarely desired especially if it&#039;s artifical.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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