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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 657286, member: 6370&quot;]I wont get into the moronic cleaning debate that causes people to bicker and threads to go on forever as people tell you exactly what is right...You might have been better off getting advice before cleaning but here, most likely, you would have just gotten useless advice such as &#039;dont clean it, keep all the corrosion&#039; or &#039;you can never improve a coin by cleaning&#039; (patently false when it come to coins from the ground), &#039;dont buy corroded filthy coins&#039; (what if they were given to you or you found it) Or the best one...&#039;I wont tell you what you need to do, pay a bunch of money to have someone else do it&#039; (because you are too stupid to follow directions). You will find people talking for all of those who collect saying things like &#039;we dont clean coins&#039; or &#039;You ruined what value it might have had by cleaning it&#039;...that is all hogwash. People can only speak for how they feel about it, thats all...and if the coin was correded and filthy before and you give it a little TLC and it looks 10x better after...obviously you have only improved its worth.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As long as you didnt soak it in harsh chemicals or scrub it with a brillo pad you probably didn&#039;t harm it that much...people often confuse &#039;harsh&#039; cleaning with &#039;cleaning&#039;...If this was a find then of course it was probably filthy and corroded to black...cleaning it was probably your only option and if it wasn&#039;t overly harsh, you probably didn&#039;t harm it all that much, no more than mother nature. Sadly, people are so illogically anal about cleaning coins that many wouldn&#039;t tell you how to do it properly even if they knew (and most simply have no information to give) but because some people MUST give advice, even about things they dont know about, they will say &#039;I wouldn&#039;t tell you for your own good, wouldn&#039;t want you destroying a great historical artifact&#039;...Then of course you have those who know and charge so they wont help you. Of course nobody wants a coin that is filthy and corroded so they go ahead and do it anyway and because they don&#039;t know how...they often ruin the coin. Its an interesting bizarre world in collecting coins. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thats a real great find though. Grats! and good luck[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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