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<p>[QUOTE="Silverlock, post: 4565188, member: 98181"]If you don’t like it now I doubt you will like it more once it has been cleaned. </p><p><br /></p><p>The lighter brown in the corrosion pits on the reverse looks like wax. Soaking the coin in acetone would remove it. The wax may be concealing bronze disease, which would explain the pitting. You would then need to (re)treat the bronze disease.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would be hesitant to do anything to the coin because the patina looks off to me as well. Given that it fills the scratches, the “patina” appears to have been added after an excessive bout of cleaning. Any further attempts at cleaning (such as using the acetone I mentioned above) could strip the artificial patina away leaving who knows what.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Silverlock, post: 4565188, member: 98181"]If you don’t like it now I doubt you will like it more once it has been cleaned. The lighter brown in the corrosion pits on the reverse looks like wax. Soaking the coin in acetone would remove it. The wax may be concealing bronze disease, which would explain the pitting. You would then need to (re)treat the bronze disease. I would be hesitant to do anything to the coin because the patina looks off to me as well. Given that it fills the scratches, the “patina” appears to have been added after an excessive bout of cleaning. Any further attempts at cleaning (such as using the acetone I mentioned above) could strip the artificial patina away leaving who knows what.[/QUOTE]
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