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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 96950, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Never fear, ma&#039;am, for I am an expert! ...&nbsp; ooops!!</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Like the Sistine Chapel and the Mona Lisa, coins are cleaned by <u>experts</u>.&nbsp; Do you think that someone who buys a Picasso washes it it &quot;just soap and water&quot; to get &quot;a little bit of the dirt off&quot;?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Coin collectors are famous for being so cocksure of themselves that they ruin their artifacts ... and all they can worry about having done that is the loss of resale value.&nbsp; These are pieces of history. Be careful with them.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Have you taken the ANA Class in Conservation?&nbsp; </font> </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><b>&quot;... a man will fight, he&#039;ll fight, he&#039;ll fight</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>to prove that what he does not know is so!&quot;</b></font></p><p>Yule Brynner as Mongkut (Rama IV) of Siam </p><p>singing &quot;It&#039;s a Puzzlemen&quot; in </p><p>Rogers and Hart&#039;s <i>The King and I</i>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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