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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2508751, member: 19463&quot;]The beginner question that keeps me from having a great interest in such coins is how are you to tell the status even a common coin that has been cleaned.&nbsp; Sure you can say that no one would clean such a coin but a &quot;Xu Zhu (that)was found by me mixed into a large hoard of about 1,000 normal looking Wu Zhu&#039;s&quot; could very well be batch processed into a patina free coin (like the BM&#039;s Domitian II antoninianus) before anyone saw it was different.&nbsp;&nbsp; How, then does one know the status of a cleaned coin like the common ones below?&nbsp; It makes no difference, I suppose, when we have a $1 coin but are all Chinese rarities either original surface encrusted or fake patina encrusted so a &quot;cleaner&quot; would be assumed fake since it could not be proven otherwise? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]533212[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]533213[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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