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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2401048, member: 19463&quot;]Removing surface deposits is cleaning. Grooming them, polishing them selectively or trimming them to enhance their enhancement of weak details are not quite the same thing as removing everything or top layers - generally down to, for example, where the dirt stops and the patina starts.&nbsp; Even this does not provide a &#039;complete&#039; definition of terms.&nbsp; I once knew a dealer who showed me a handful of coins from his pocket.&nbsp; He had a few quarters, dimes, nickels and a billon tetradrachm of Uranius Antoninus.&nbsp; The coin was a bit rough from a mix of corrosion and deposits.&nbsp; He said it looked a lot better than it did six months earlier when he started carrying it.&nbsp; He was trading a VF with surface issues for a F with better eye appeal.&nbsp; Thirty years ago, that made more sense than it would to most people today. I never saw the finished product.&nbsp; I really see nothing wrong with what he was doing.&nbsp; At least he wasn&#039;t recutting it into a Saturninus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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