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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rhino89, post: 1152059, member: 21773&quot;]I have questions about a couple issues:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1. I heard that some coins may have a patina, but may be corroded underneath... how can you tell if that&#039;s the case? And is that really bad, or is the patina essentially protecting the coin from further damage?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>2. I know there are coins out there that have had an artificial patina applied to them. How do you tell if that&#039;s the case in a certain coin, what do you look for?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The reason why I want to know about these topics is because of the coin below. I haven&#039;t seen many coins with that dark of a tone on it, and I was reading online about patinas and saw that a couple sites mentioned the issues above. I just want to make sure that this coin wasn&#039;t tampered with or has something wrong with it. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v662/subliminalxtac/1-3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v662/subliminalxtac/2-3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There may be nothing wrong with it, maybe it&#039;s just me being paranoid, but I&#039;d like to educate myself. Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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