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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3139563, member: 19463&quot;]The link galba68 provided is wonderful but omitted emphasis on one thing needed to be a coin cleaner.&nbsp; Patience.&nbsp; Buckets full of patience. I am sure that the recent increases in bronze disease coins is attributable to poor handling of new finds.&nbsp; In the more distant past, I suspect that coins that were not deemed worth marketing were just trashed but now they are washed off and sold to those of us who hope we can save them all.&nbsp; The article mentions that the time to clean a common LRB would greatly exceed the value of the coin but my patience level makes it questionable on many better coins.&nbsp; I do believe everyone needs a stereoscopic microscope but I use mine for fun and investigating what someone else did to the coins rather than cleaning them myself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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