Which do you like?

Conserve. A horse of an entirely different color from clean.

 

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This one is attractive to me, and would not clean/conserve it at all.

 

Dunno John. I quite like it the way it is.

 

Cleaning sounds too harsh, I prefer conservation.

 

It's holdered.......conserved.

 

Yes, I would care. If I were presented with the two coins in your OP, one being original and toned, and one being blast white and clearly dipped... I'd pick the original one every single time.

Yeah, that's exactly it.

Also.... I don't really care where you went to school. I do care that you use proper grammar and punctuation. It is considered good manners on a forum such as this.

 

Before the cleaning... maybe 65

After the cleaning... 64

And it is obvious you (or someone else) cleaned it. Don't try to play coy with us. The before and after obverse are clearly the same coin.

 

I'm not sure if this is a good coin to prove this point but It's what I'm willing to sacrifice.

I understand. Does electrolosys change the surface material or just remove contaminants. I've heard that is how PCGS does restoration.

 

I'm trying, you have 5 beers and a glass of wine and let's see your punkseeation. lol

 

Lobotomy

Leave the coins as they be.

 

I'm currently at 4 glasses of bourbon.

I'll bet @green18 probably has me beat.

But I use a spell checker.

What's your excuse?

 

YES!!!! I didn't say it!!!!

 

I'm using android 4.2 with a queerboard

 

LOL......I confess nothing......

 

Cleaning and conservation are two very, very different things. The difference between them has been discussed at length many times before. They should not be confused!

The coin in the OP was cleaned - it was not conserved.

 

But they look so beautiful when you love them a little!!!!

 

Google and I have no idea what that means....

 

That has implications.....

 

Says who? What determines cleaned as opposed to conserved. Acetone dip? A little juice?

 

The difference has been determined by a hundred years of numismatic practice. There are commonly accepted definitions of each term. I'm not going to get into it now, both because this thread isn't worth it and because it is easily searchable if you cared.