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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 8154715, member: 80804&quot;]Say what you will about my opinion here, but so far as I can see, the presence of normal accumulations like this on an obviously well-circulated coin is completely acceptable as-is. Why do you even want to &quot;clean&quot; it?</p><p>There is no way it will ever be &quot;new&quot; again - no technique on earth can reverse the entropy involved.</p><p>If you want gemmy coins they are definitely available - buy them in that condition. So long as you are not vastly overpaying, if new and shiny-looking is your goal, you would do better to focus on collecting shiny, MS specimens - and you may well find yourself disappointed with this piece in comparison to genuinely new-looking coins.</p><p>Or, you may have some sentimental attachment to it - you found it in your grandmother&#039;s driveway - it was a gift from a dear relative or friend who has passed - it was an amazingly lucky find in change. Those - and many other factors - are all good reasons for even a pristine-condition maven to keep and treasure a coin which unabashedly shows its history on its face.</p><p>For me, at least, circulated coins are a testament to their real, useful history - if they could only talk, what amazing tales they might tell. You probably need to use your imagination, but each &quot;used&quot; coin has a story or three to tell if you try to see it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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