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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 644939, member: 112&quot;]Certainly nothing wrong with what you suggest. And it has been done many times, here and on other forums. Boss does it quite often, desertgem has done quite a few, Thad has done some, and more members than I can count, let alone remember their names, have chimed in with their efforts. If anyone actually wanted to take the time to go back thru all of the threads looking for these, what they would end up finding is that 99% or more of the time efforts to improve a coin results in failure. And a large percentage of the time they actually end up looking worse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then of course you could account for all of the recommendations on the subject found in books written by some of the foremost experts in the hobby. They relate many instances of attempted improvement of problem coins that also failed with the end recommendation of - don&#039;t bother trying.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess some people must think that I pretty much just say what I say because that&#039;s the way I am. But that&#039;s not the reason. The reason I say what I say is because of all the attempts at improvement that I have seen and discussed over almost 50 years in the hobby. I tend to believe what I see with my own eyes. And what I have seen is that efforts to improve problem coins result in failure, almost always.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I guess that&#039;s really the thing, people don&#039;t like to believe some things until they see it with their own eyes. Can&#039;t really fault them for that as I am much the same in that regard. I can recall that at the age of 7 when I was given my first 2 coins by my grandmother and my grandfather told me, don&#039;t try to clean them - I did not listen. That very day I got a jeweler&#039;s rouge cloth out my grandma&#039;s jewelry box and sat down to polish those coins up and make them nice and shiny. They got shiny alright, buy they still retain to this day the fine scratches and hairlines that I put on them back in 1960 with that jeweler&#039;s cloth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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