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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1431439, member: 19463&quot;]I, too, like green patinas but often have to face the fact that it is extremely unusual to get a perfectly even green with smooth surfaces without someone having gone too far smoothing or polishing the coin.&nbsp; It is not always easy to draw a line whether a green coin was smoothed too much to be &#039;natural&#039;.&nbsp; After all coins do not get a green patina without being buried in soil with certain circumstances that produce the green (you don&#039;t get green keeping a coin in your sock drawer or in a sealed slab).&nbsp; When you wash away the soil and expose the green the surface can be rough and not perfectly attractive.&nbsp; Smoothing can improve the look but too much polishing can make the coin look unnatural.&nbsp; Too much smoothing can break through the green and expose metal below with results that can be uglier than no patina at all.&nbsp; We always hear from people who say no coin should be cleaned but they generally have no concept of what happens to ancients in a couple thousand years.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll attach five green coins in various degrees of green conservation.&nbsp; You can decide which is attractive and which is not - no matter, none are for sale.&nbsp; Polished green coins are really hard to photograph.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]175039.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]175040.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]175041.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]175042.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]175043.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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