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<p>[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 7694657, member: 82549"]I have cleaned hundreds of uncleaned coins over the years, and I've ruined my share due to wild experimentation or overzealous cleaning. An adage to remember: patience never ruined an uncleaned coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Good job on the two above. That Gratian is much scarcer than the Valens and Valentinian coins of the same type. Nice find.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, you might consider buying coins from dealers who show you the exact coins that you are buying, rather than those who just show a photo of a huge lot of coins and say they will randomly pick coins from that lot. There are several dealers of uncleaned coins on eBay who sell lots of, say, 10 coins and show photos of the fronts and backs of all 10. I've found that you get less junk this way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 7694657, member: 82549"]I have cleaned hundreds of uncleaned coins over the years, and I've ruined my share due to wild experimentation or overzealous cleaning. An adage to remember: patience never ruined an uncleaned coin. Good job on the two above. That Gratian is much scarcer than the Valens and Valentinian coins of the same type. Nice find. Also, you might consider buying coins from dealers who show you the exact coins that you are buying, rather than those who just show a photo of a huge lot of coins and say they will randomly pick coins from that lot. There are several dealers of uncleaned coins on eBay who sell lots of, say, 10 coins and show photos of the fronts and backs of all 10. I've found that you get less junk this way.[/QUOTE]
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