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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 2582064, member: 8959&quot;]Like you, I would have had difficulty making the decision to clean it. It is an important and historic coin, and its relation to the Second Punic War, Scipio and Hasdrubal makes it a very interesting and significant numismatic item.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Concerning the cleaning: yes, the uneven appearance of the reverse would have bothered me as well, but all in all I think I would have left it alone. I like the original appearance of the obverse and tend to prefer that over bright surfaces on ancient coins. As the cleaning turned out well (obviously done very carefully), all is well.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the coin were mine, I would now place it on a window-sill to tone it down to a more natural, subdued shade of silver. I have had some good results with that simple conservative approach on some of my (as-bought) brightly cleaned ancients.</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all a very nice coin and congratulations to you for acquiring it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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