Cleaning Low Value, Low Grade Coins

Just to be clear, that War Nickel didn't achieve its patina from circulation, but from being removed from circulation.

Everything is part of the coins history. My question is, If the coin is shiny on the high spots and dark in the protected areas when it is in circulation, then gets a dull appearance when just sitting, is is not authentic to pick up the worn coin and rub it between your fingers as if in circulation, to make it shiny on the high spots? At that point it is an option to put it in a holder to protect it from getting dull again.

Chute72 - I think "thumbing" a coin in this manner will make it turn brownish yellow over time due to the body oils, even if it is protected. As far as the OP goes, well, chacon a son gout, as they say. And I think the OP like the above poster's penny did a fairly sensitive restoration, so really no judgement from me. I guess for me I feel that if a seventy year old man gets a facelift, he doesn't suddenly look like a forty year old man, he looks like a seventy year old man who has had a facelift. Similarly, a seventy year old coin that has been cleaned just looks like a cleaned coin to me.