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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8295175, member: 19463&quot;]A word about acetone:&nbsp; If the coin just happened to have been &#039;improved&#039; with paint or waxy infill smoother over the pits, you might find out something you really did not want to know if these unnatural materials were to be dissolved.&nbsp; The acetone would do the coin no harm but it might force you to realize that you made a mistake more serious than just Renaissance wax.&nbsp; I suppose it is better to know that you had a coin with a fake patina or expansive repair topped off with the wax but there is no guarantee that anything you do to coins from water on up won&#039;t reveal a surprise here and there.&nbsp; How badly do you want to know if that sand patina is thousands of years in the making or Maybelline?&nbsp; Those here who told you acetone would do no harm are right.&nbsp; The harm was done when someone painted on the surface.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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