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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 1090255, member: 2972&quot;]BR is applied a few ways.&nbsp; I use a q-tip not my finger.&nbsp; Remove extras with cotton balls.&nbsp; It does not damage the coin in any way.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, in my experience BR is quite inert over long periods of time.&nbsp; It does not change the surface, in my experience.&nbsp; Of course, I will yield if others have a divergent viewpoint as my first-hand experience is just that -- hardly authoritative and hopefully not presented as such.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It is up to all of us to decide what WE consider MA.&nbsp; Some are fine with BR.&nbsp; Others despise it.&nbsp; Some are fine with a dip in jeweluster, others shun those coins.&nbsp; Some much prefer the verdigris-free look of a coin treated with VG, others like corroded coins in all their glory.&nbsp; Who are any of us to judge the likes and dislikes of others?&nbsp;&nbsp; Certainly not me, but that doesn&#039;t change the fact that we all have our own likes and dislikes, and these likes and dislikes often vary by &quot;type&quot; of coin treatment.</p><p><br /></p><p>The challenge, of course, is that against this vast and varying landscape of collectors likes and dislikes are the TPGs, and their interpretation of these in terms of MA and non-MA.&nbsp; When the TPGs &quot;decide for us&quot; what&#039;s acceptable or not, and how this impacts the collecting public (or mimics the collecting public) is when the rubber meets the road, so to speak.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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