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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3145696, member: 19463"]It isn't easy being green. I was in the Army for 20 years. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie63" alt=":lurking:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a fact: You are not going to turn that coin into something wonderful for your collection. However, that coin can do its part into turning you into a more knowledgeable collector. Perhaps it will do that by sacrificing the last of its lives when you do something really wrong. You should be concerned about what is under that green. It is as likely as not to be as ugly as the green but this is a chance you must take to find out what was under there. I might suggest that soaking it in lemon juice would kill the green but that would be a great deal more likely to wreck what is left of the coin. Does that mean that would be wrong? Considering the fact that the coin is not a mint state beauty or a rare, unreplaceable museum candidate, wrong is a very flexible subject. Learn. Teach others. Enjoy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3145696, member: 19463"]It isn't easy being green. I was in the Army for 20 years. :lurking: Here is a fact: You are not going to turn that coin into something wonderful for your collection. However, that coin can do its part into turning you into a more knowledgeable collector. Perhaps it will do that by sacrificing the last of its lives when you do something really wrong. You should be concerned about what is under that green. It is as likely as not to be as ugly as the green but this is a chance you must take to find out what was under there. I might suggest that soaking it in lemon juice would kill the green but that would be a great deal more likely to wreck what is left of the coin. Does that mean that would be wrong? Considering the fact that the coin is not a mint state beauty or a rare, unreplaceable museum candidate, wrong is a very flexible subject. Learn. Teach others. Enjoy.[/QUOTE]
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