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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Barry Murphy, post: 3186138, member: 79368&quot;]Concerning Ren-wax, we will encapsulate a coin that has been treated with Ren-wax, as long as it&#039;s properly applied. </p><p><br /></p><p>Cleaning and repatinating is not as big of an issue with ancient coins as it is with US and world coins, and we are therefore a bit more liberal in what we will and won&#039;t encapsulate. Nearly all silver has been cleaned and most bronzes get cleaned as well. Constantinian AE&#039;s don&#039;t come out the ground with nice glossy brown surfaces, and those nice &quot;desert&quot; patinas that perfectly highlight the devices didn&#039;t come out of the ground that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>We don&#039;t encapsulate bronzes that have been filled with putty, we don&#039;t encapsulate tooled coins and we don&#039;t encapsulate obviously fake desert patinas because you can&#039;t tell what&#039;s under the applied dirt.</p><p><br /></p><p>Concerning the NGC authenticity guarantee, I&#039;m not going to rehash that for the 10th time. Search the archives and you can find plenty of comments by me on this subject.</p><p><br /></p><p>Barry Murphy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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