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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2374862, member: 19463&quot;]If you are willing to pay for the coin as it is and can risk removing the make-up to see what is under there, you must be used to paying too much for coins.&nbsp; You will be encouraging the practice.&nbsp; I have coins I suspect and have not tested but I only buy them when the type is something I really want.&nbsp; The question I have is whether you will pass on your suspicions hen you sell the coin.&nbsp; I plan on leaving that up to whoever inherits my coins.&nbsp; What I look for is an area of raised surface deposits under the sand.&nbsp; I figure that would indicate the coin was lost, retrieved after a period of years and lost again (possible but not as likely???).&nbsp; Are the places over the bull&#039;s back (not touching it) and under AN of the mintmark raised?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Question:&nbsp; Of the &#039;test&#039; chemicals, which is most likely to harm the patina if genuine?&nbsp; Water???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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