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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3701800, member: 96864&quot;]Yes it is, but to get those &quot;actually good coins&quot; you should hunt for individual pieces up for sale that are still dirty and superficially ugly, which will scare away unperceptive potential competitors and make obtaining them affordable and then cleaning them an extremely rewarding project.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t want to jinx myself but have just such a project planned for this great 35mm, 24.3g AE Hadrian Drachm of Alexandria that I won for about 90 shipped and is still in transit.:[ATTACH=full]992029[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The typical collector will look at it and find fault with what they may assume are bubbly rough surfaces, but I scrutinized the pics carefully and decided it was a worthy gamble to bet on it actually just being dirty with a nice smooth chocolate patina underneath the dirt and mineral encrustations. Looking closely, the obverse legend, the crevices in the design elements and the fields all actually appear to be clogged with cleanable gunk instead of being corroded and damaged which many might assume at first glance. We&#039;ll see if the gamble pays off, but if it does I expect that I&#039;ll turn this 90.00 coin into a 250.00+ coin, and at worst I could still get my money back relatively easily if it doesn&#039;t respond to cleaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s hard to explain if you don&#039;t have much experience cleaning with tools under binocular microscope, but after a while one develops a pretty reliable ability to &quot;see&quot; underneath the dirt on coins, which makes locating good deals that only need a little TLC quite easy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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