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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2575302, member: 1892&quot;]In truth, I&#039;m a little hesitant about doing anything at all to it if there&#039;s no pressing reason to intervene with active verdigris (and active verdigris is not all that &quot;pressing&quot; to begin with). The patches around the bust <b>do</b> seem like they might be worth a closer look. There&#039;s no_way the coin&#039;s surfaces under the crud will have the same patina as those exposed, and the risk is run of ending up with a coin which has been plainly &quot;cleaned&quot; as a result.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s actually the cause for my original concern about the surfaces - it&#039;s difficult to imagine that the crud would be so thick on a couple spots, yet completely nonexistent in other tight areas where one might expect crud to accumulate. Not out of the question, especially if it circulated after accumulating the crud, but cause for concern all the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think I&#039;d mess with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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