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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3141324, member: 19463&quot;]When coins are struck, various areas &#039;squish&#039; to fill the design placing different pressures around devices than in flat fields or on high points of design.&nbsp; Add to this deposits that gravitate to places where relief changes and cleaning techniques that address these deposits selectively and we have to expect less than perfectly even textures on the surfaces.&nbsp; Especially when plans were treated in an acid bath for surface enrichment,&nbsp; there can be differences in the metal composition from place to place on the surface.&nbsp; Those places might corrode differently. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Kroton stater below demonstrates why we warn that cleaning something like horn silver from a coin opens us to discovering what was beneath might be uglier than what was removed.&nbsp; The coin is not plated and no longer has deposits around devices.&nbsp; Whether that is good or not is a matter of opinion.&nbsp; I did not see this coin before it was cleaned so I don&#039;t know which I would have chosen. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]803096[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>To me, your coin looks perfectly normal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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