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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 2582648, member: 39084&quot;]Certainly, if you define &quot;harshly cleaned&quot; as &quot;any cleaning more than necessary to identify the coin,&quot; then you can apply your definition to the OP coin and call it harshly cleaned.&nbsp; But it&#039;s doubtful you&#039;ll get agreement that this is a reasonable definition of &quot;harshly cleaned&quot; from any other ancient coin collectors (surely not from me).&nbsp; There is a huge and easily recognizable difference between removing surface encrustations and cleaning a coin harshly.</p><p><br /></p><p>The surface encrustations that were removed from the OP coin were not part of the coin&#039;s original minting, nor were they put there when the coin was handled probably thousands of times during its circulation.&nbsp; They weren&#039;t part of a normally occurring chemical reaction (e.g., silver naturally tarnishing due to contact with airborne hydrogen sulfide).&nbsp; They&#039;re simply crud whose removal restored the coin&#039;s devices and surfaces to a more accurate state of the coin&#039;s condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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