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<p>[QUOTE="Mikey Zee, post: 2109315, member: 72818"]I also love the coin and JA's and Bings' comments...I guess the surface roughness of typical provincials is due to the the metal composition and the soil/environmental conditions in which they were lost and then found...</p><p><br /></p><p>And I prefer lightly cleaning, but not tooling and smoothing, to retain the ancient look and patina they have achieved after all those centuries hidden away somewhere...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mikey Zee, post: 2109315, member: 72818"]I also love the coin and JA's and Bings' comments...I guess the surface roughness of typical provincials is due to the the metal composition and the soil/environmental conditions in which they were lost and then found... And I prefer lightly cleaning, but not tooling and smoothing, to retain the ancient look and patina they have achieved after all those centuries hidden away somewhere...[/QUOTE]
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