Truly awful
I had my own "disaster" a few years back
I picked up a small lot of Postumus bronzes from a seller in France
Based on the evidence I presume he had dug them up as a detectorist out in the field. I really only wanted the largest that had a trireme reverse and the rest I sold off to recoup most of the expense.
The second largest Sestertius had a lovely glossy green patina but a few edge chips exposing BD beneath. The more I tried to rid the cancer the more the edges chipped until the entire rim was exposed.
And still the BD persisted !
Well stage 4 cancer calls for extreme measures if anything was to be saved at all. Using a 'secret' recipe I proceeded to bathe the coin for an extended period of time with slow but certain results. After about one week my bottle of 'secret' sauce was finished and I fetched another from the kitchen closet.
Unwittingly I opened a bottle that was double the strength of the one previously used !
I changed the bath water and set the coin back on the shelf.
Around two days later I went to check on it.

The glossy green patina had ALL been stripped away
A hard lesson learned
Fortunately for me the patient had already been diagnosed as probably terminal