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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;joecoincollect, post: 2037021, member: 71338&quot;]What you say is true. I&#039;ve seen many corroded coins slabbed by the top two. I saw a Australian large cent around the year 1920 or 30 with green corrosion (which means it&#039;s active and already eating through top thin layers of the coin, right?) graded VHF or xf. I have a French five francs around the 1860s that obviously was cleaned at some time and looks porous in the fields, yet it got a xf. And there&#039;s all the classic US coins like you mentioned. Let&#039;s say your right about this coin above being corroded, which I kinda believe more now. I can see it suffering toning/corrosion (these two are quite the same, depending who says what and how they are used) and then being dipped to remove it, leaving porosity. Wouldn&#039;t you still say the corrosion is quite limited and not active? I don&#039;t think it should be detailed graded when compared with others that are[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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