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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 656961, member: 57463"]It is now worth less than half of what it was worth before you cleaned it. WE NEVER CLEAN COINS. (Except when it is called "Conservation.") When you removed the "tarnish" you removed 500 years of patina.  You stripped off the living history of the coin. It can be saved.  It can be retoned via conservation known to experienced collectors.  Before you do any more damage to this artifact of Renaissance History, talk to us here.  Your interest only in the coin's "value" (i.e., market value) proved your undoing. As much as we worry about price -- and face it: numismatics is capitalism at its finest, an unregulated market for the buying and selling of money -- the Ground State, the bottom line, the entry point, the event horizon for us is the artistry of the history.  Without that, they are just lumps of metal, not much more than shiny stones. --------Addendum: The reason that no one has any quick answers for you indicates the nominal rarity of this coin.  We have many active world and medieval and ancient collectors here.  I checked CoinArchives and VCoins and came up dry.  Maybe if someone has a Davenport on their shelf, they can give you some indication of "price" (ahem) from 50 years ago.[/QUOTE]