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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NOS, post: 5327237, member: 2098&quot;]Counterfeiters of ancient cash coins out of China have been known to bury their coins in the ground and pee over them for months and sometimes years to age and essentially corrode them to make them look authentic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a recently-discussed example of a Trade Dollar that some speculate could be fake and had intentional damage inflicted to it to conceal its potentially being counterfeit: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-coin-only-its-mother-could-love.372323/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-coin-only-its-mother-could-love.372323/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-coin-only-its-mother-could-love.372323/</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, there are reasons one would intentionally wish to corrode or otherwise damage a coin. The OP&#039;s coin I believe is natural but did not respond well to being in the ground and suffered at the hands of an unskilled attempt at cleaning that did not turn out well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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