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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ziggy29, post: 13361, member: 1113&quot;]It&#039;s really good you&#039;re asking this.&nbsp; Too many people just start scrubbing and using abrasives when they don&#039;t know if (a) it will help the market value (it usually doesn&#039;t), and (b) there might be better professional services out there.&nbsp; Usually when people ask if they should clean coins, the knee-jerk answer is &quot;don&#039;t clean coins&quot; -- but the truth is -- with a professional opinion as to whether &quot;cleaning&quot; or otherwise changing a coin&#039;s appearance is advisable, and with a competent professional doing that work, in a few occasions it *can* be a good idea.&nbsp; I&#039;m not qualified to make that judgment, but in my opinion this would certainly seem like a candidate for some good professional restoration work.&nbsp; But it&#039;s always important to get that qualified opinion first, especially with a coin this valuable in *any* grade.&nbsp; (Man, this *and* an 1877 cent.&nbsp; Have you made some kind of deal with the devil or some &quot;key date karma&quot; that we need to know about?&nbsp; Burning incense, maybe?)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d think about sending this one off to NCS -- <a href="http://www.ncscoin.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ncscoin.com" rel="nofollow">www.ncscoin.com</a></p><p><br /></p><p>They are affiliated with NGC, and they specialize in &quot;conserving&quot;, as they put it, coins that could use a little TLC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given the obviously full LIBERTY you showed in the closeup, this coin grades at least Fine in terms of wear, and possibly finer (especially given the boldness of the letters).&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure if NCS can help you in a case like this, but it shouldn&#039;t cost much more than $10 to find out (their base fee to find out if they can help is 1% of fair market value, minimum $5) and if they can, you&#039;ll be charged another 1.5% of market value.</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt they can do a LOT with corrosion and crud like this, and I know they can&#039;t make it look problem-free, but if it turns an almost uncollectable-looking coin to a net G-4 or better, it could be money well spent.&nbsp; I think it&#039;s worth the small amount of money it would take to see if they can improve it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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