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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 2978154, member: 85693&quot;]Thank you all for your comments on my (probably) diseased coin.&nbsp; I was too flippant with my &quot;let it rot&quot; comment and for that I am sorry.&nbsp; I do want to be a good steward and perhaps I&#039;ll reconsider my decision to let it be. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was especially impressed by Smojo&#039;s cleaned example - for about a year now I&#039;ve been following BD posts here (even before I joined) and the &quot;saved&quot; BD&#039;s that I recall were pretty hideous - pitted husks.&nbsp; Which is better than a pile of green powder, I suppose. </p><p><br /></p><p>My other consideration comes from personal experience.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been collecting coins for about 40 years, since I was a kid, seriously for 31 years, since 1987.&nbsp; And in these years I picked up a coin that is Yemen Quaiti State countermark on a Zanzibar paisa.&nbsp; This is a pretty rare item (rarer than the catalog indicates).&nbsp; I got it cheap out of a World Coin News ad about 30 years ago and it is afflicted, I think, with bronze disease.</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing is, 30 years have passed and I have done nothing to it except change its non-PVC flip from time to time (it gets a little green powder sometimes).&nbsp; My point being that there has been <i>virtually no change in 30 years</i> and I haven&#039;t harmed it by ineptly cleaning it.&nbsp;&nbsp; My thoughts on the Aurelian tet is that it is not actively flaking in my hand - which I know means that it might still be rotting down below.&nbsp; (Incidentally, the seller (eBay) had a lot of four Egyptian bronzes, with virtually no description - he says they were all &quot;just out of the ground&quot; - they all had this same green stuff on &#039;em.&nbsp; I got the worst of the lot - there were some other tets and a really big Ptolemy something-or-other (which I was outbid on)). </p><p><br /></p><p>But you guys give me confidence that maybe I can do something.&nbsp; I&#039;ll give it a shot, but I&#039;m going to watch it for a while.&nbsp; Your passion over this small, rather unattractive little coin is inspiring. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my Yemen (Quaiti State) countermark on a Zanzibar paisa - maybe it&#039;s not BD, but I suspect it is:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]732174[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]732175[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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