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It does really depend on what type of tank you strap onto your back, if you use a Centurion tank it helps you get to the bottom really quickly.

If they went forwards they would still be in it 😮

NGC states that they don’t alter any surfaces during their conversation process, I often wonder what they do though, if joe bloggs dips a coin it’s cleaned, if NGC does the same it’s called conservation 🤷‍♀️

Blake, a veritable tsunami of puns there, leaving me high and dry in my attempts to find more. A real watershed moment in punnery.

As usual, I sea the Punmeisters General have started their outboards and are going overboard plumbing the depths. It was only a matter of time for the jokes to hit rock bottom. I'm not going to join in. I don't give in to pier pressure. I'm not that gullible.

Wave after wave of them.

I have always liked the highly reflective surfaces on JH coins. Even deeply toned coins can still show this mirror finish.

If you surf the net you can find better pictures.

Sorry Blake

cleaned or uncleaned - which do you prefer?

Sorry Sword, but I don’t agree with the definitions above, particularly with “conservation’ which almost never involves removing an original surface, but entails removing foreign matter, contaminants, corrosion products etc to reveal the original surface and possibly with archaeological finds for example treatment to prevent/ deactivate future or active corrosion eg rust, verdigris, treatment which may be physical, chemical or by environmental control. The act of repairing damage, a mount mark, piercing, scratch etc, would be better described as restoration, in that the actual object is in some way modified to ‘enhance’ it’s appearance, albeit that the intention is usually to return it visually to a previous state. What we generally refer to as cleaning of coins does usually involve removing something from the original surface, be it by abrasion using polishes (or wire wool or sandpaper for example -shudder-) or by chemically as with silver dip; some might argue the latter only involves removal of corrosion products ie tarnish, but in effect dipping facilitates metal loss by removing a protective coating and exposing environmentally reactive fresh metal which then in turn will tarnish over time. There is certainly overlap between the above and room for interpretative differences. Personally I do advocate coin conservation where necessary, for example removal of acidic oils and waxes to prevent future corrosion, or removal of active verdigris to keep the damage localised. And I see so many slabbed coins with dirty, gunged up letters or designs- there is no point placing the coin and the causes of corrosion in the same ‘protected’ environment. Jerry

I'm Getting Tide of all these silly jokes

oh, the tides they are a-changin. (sorry, carry on)

With 7 jewels on the crown, apostrophe stops and 6 harp strings, I'm going to stick my neck out and say Richmond 1g. P204 with mm double rose on the obverse only

Thats also a lot better as when you bought it the reverse was the worse side HAT OFF