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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2554141, member: 24314&quot;]YOC posted:&nbsp; I have first hand evidence that museums destroy coins with severe mass cleaning methods in order to identify them, but not preserve them. <span style="color: #ff0000">Me too <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p>I do not like their methods, I wouldnt work for them and they wouldnt have me in any case.&nbsp; <span style="color: #ff0000">IMO, That&#039;s their loss.</span></p><p>I am no genius.... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <span style="color: #ff0000">Oh YES YOU ARE.</span></p><p>I paid alot of money to obtain some techniques which had been developed by someone else.&nbsp; I gave my word the techniques would not be divulged to anyone else...ever.&nbsp; <span style="color: #ff0000">Write the method down and seal it to be opened when you die and it is auctioned off by your estate to the highest bidder.&nbsp; Then you kept your word.</span>&nbsp; <span style="color: #ff0000">Many of us have &quot;secrets&quot; and over time they come out or are discovered by others.&nbsp; I should think that the person who taught you has surely taught others.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe if you gave your answers to questions 2 and 3 it would be helpful...</p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; Do you think it has been fraudulently altered? <span style="color: #ff0000">Yes, see post #30 </span>explain YOUR thoughts...<span style="color: #ff0000">I believe you (especially you) know the difference without my input.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span> </p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; What brown coin? <span style="color: #ff0000">I see red, brown, black and green (no silver color) in the &quot;Before&quot; photo.</span> Are we looking at the same photographs?</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin surfaces may appear to be rough after cleaning, but they are perfectly smooth.&nbsp; The silvering which remains is patchy and gives the impression of a rough surface. It is hard to photograph such a coin, as has been discussed before.&nbsp; <span style="color: #ff0000">You call it smooth, I call it rough with tiny lumps of raised metal especially next to the relief.&nbsp; Photography does not make a rough surface sooth, a smooth surface rough, or totally add silver color to its surface.&nbsp; I examine coins using a microscope so we probably have a different opinion of the word &quot;smooth.&quot;</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">Again, I&#039;ve enjoyed your input.&nbsp; Still wish to know how long the process took as I have doctored a few bronze and copper coins in my life and my work is not even close to yours as I don&#039;t plate or fill surfaces.&nbsp; Just in case you missed it...You are a genius! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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