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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 21376, member: 57463&quot;]I am really sorry to see that this coin was stripped of its natural patina.&nbsp; Why do you think people prefer to wear clothing, as opposed to going around naked?&nbsp; &quot;Modesty&quot; only addresses half the subject.&nbsp; Clothes make the man.&nbsp; A coin&#039;s history is written on its molecular layer of surface.&nbsp; Remove the surface and you take a man out of his lounge suit and display him naked.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another way to look at it is to look in the mirror at the lines on your face.&nbsp; You could have them removed.&nbsp; Some women do that so that they look &quot;younger.&quot;&nbsp; In other words, so that they look like people who have no character because they have never lived: no joys, no sorrows, no achievements, no failures.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please do not clean coins.&nbsp; Even if it were not a matter of romance, the unyielding arithmetic is that coins that have been cleaned are worth less than those that have not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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