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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2512689, member: 76086&quot;]A couple of things.&nbsp; One, green patinas can often be very brittle and will flake away quite easily.&nbsp; Most Europeans will pay an extreme premium for those greens, but often they are quite delicate, and often powdery (which explains why so many people might think it is bronze disease).</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, and this is MOST important, there likely wont be (I dont know any personally who will do so) ANY dealer who will take a coin back after you have altered it in any way.&nbsp; If you take it upon yourself to clean or treat a coin, no matter what your intent may be, good or bad, a dealer just isn&#039;t going to take it back.&nbsp; Kind of like the idea of &#039;you break it you buy it&#039;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Bronze disease is a weird thing.&nbsp; It can happen at any time and nobody really knows exactly why.&nbsp; People often talk about humidity, storage, etc., but it can pop up randomly.&nbsp; A dealer sells a coin honestly and honorably, but two weeks or two decades later it develops this condition.&nbsp; Are they liable?&nbsp; I dont think so, and I have been a dealer for nearly three decades.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Have I sold coins with this condition?&nbsp; Absolutely.&nbsp; But with full disclosure.&nbsp; I once had a nice group of Judaean bronzes I bought from David Hendin.&nbsp; I stored them properly for a few years before I got around to looking at them.&nbsp; In the interim they had developed this problem (and since they were stored in a bag, all the connecting coins developed the problem).&nbsp; I didn&#039;t go back to Dave for a refund, I accepted that it simply happened.&nbsp; I subsequently donated them to an individual who was experienced in treating the problem and he in turn donated the coins to the Ancient Coins for Education project.&nbsp; Off to school kids to promote history and learning.&nbsp; Pretty good outcome, I would think.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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