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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2892278, member: 19463&quot;]I wish I were more confident in this question.&nbsp; I imagine that we condemn a certain number of good coins when, in fact, their only problem was that the cleaner was careful not to remove the sand that once covered the entire coin with great skill making the details show through and the fields fully covered.&nbsp; I avoid any coin that has a surface texture that is filled with sand but does not look reasonable to have existed before the coin went into the sand long ago.&nbsp; Cleaning scratches should not be filled with sand.&nbsp; Neither should corrosion pits unless we believe the coin was scratched and corroded two thousand years ago and then dropped in the dirt.&nbsp; I look at such coins under magnification and decide if I believe or doubt.&nbsp; Judging with certainty from photos is not a skill in my set.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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