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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 24892469, member: 134416&quot;]Are you asking me if it&#039;s a taboo or methods?&nbsp; I&#039;m a notorious klutz at hands-on stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>Assuming the former, tooling is a big no-no (although I&#039;ve heard that Europeans don&#039;t mind it as much), smoothing fields can be a no-no, depending on the collector.&nbsp; Per cleaning, other than stripping an AE coin of a patina, I guess there aren&#039;t any really hard rules about it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1599099[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1599101[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Out of the ground silver looks like the above, so cleaning is necessary in most cases (although the above were bought to keep as is).&nbsp; These common coins in an uncleaned state were much more interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like Aaron Berk said in his podcast, all ancients come out of the ground so they have to be cleaned to some extent.&nbsp; Most collectors don&#039;t want a black silver coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Toning is generally strongly preferred for silver, although most toning came from cabinet toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Brightly cleaned silver can also be attractive, in certain cases:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1599102[/ATTACH]</p><p>The miniscule chip knocked a couple hundred off of the purchase price.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1599104[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The dealer managed to break the above Nero through shoddy shipping (and hasn&#039;t responded to me), but that&#039;s either very old cabinet toning or a hoard patina.&nbsp; It&#039;s a bit darker in person. The coin is bent at a 30 degree angle now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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