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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2928161, member: 82549&quot;]I don&#039;t think there is much to clean on that coin. It&#039;s worn and covered with a very thick patina, but I don&#039;t see any dirt or encrustation. You might uncover a little more detail by zapping it via electrolysis, but at the cost of revealing a lot of surface pitting. You could also lose a lot of the reverse inscription.</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing about electrolysis is that it&#039;s more or less all or nothing. Removing some of the patina, exposing the bare surface metal in some places but not others, generally makes a coin look worse. So once some of the patina starts to fall off you usually want to take it all off. It this were a common LRB, I&#039;d say: &quot;Why not? Give it a try.&quot; But with a coin this rare, I wouldn&#039;t mess with it. You are more likely to ruin it than improve it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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