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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2347155, member: 19463&quot;]We really have to get over this irrational fear of anything green on a coin.&nbsp; Bronze disease is horrible but it is a very specific type of corrosion.&nbsp; Coins with hard and stable green spots are in no danger and should not be treated for a disease they do not have. </p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, I wish there were a way of giving &#039;beginner&#039; coins to kids who would appreciate them but asking young people to send contact information has become so politically incorrect that it simply is not the good idea it was when I was young.&nbsp; That is what local coin clubs are for but the kids I have seen there would rather have a 90% silver dime than a LRB.&nbsp; Most of us probably have appropriate &#039;kid&#039; coins but matching them up with the kid who would appreciate them for more than what they are worth would be hard.&nbsp; The best we have in this regard was ACE (Ancient Coins for Education) but the price of the uncleaned coins they once gave to schools and individual essay winners led to them being dropped by most public schools leaving only kids being sent to expensive private schools who could just as well go buy their own coins.&nbsp; I wish I knew an answer here but I do not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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