| Feelings on improperly cleaned coins?
How does everyone here view improperly cleaned coins? For example, you would like to have a slabbed gold piece of some sort. I don't mean say, a 20-100 dollar range silver coin where you may as well get a nice uncleaned one. But say for a $10 gold eagle. The normal price is 600+. You find the same coin, same year for roughly half this price, in a slab from NGC and it states that it's been improperly cleaned? Would some people use that to their advantage and get a really nice coin that was improperly cleaned or would you rather get the 600+ just to say it hasn't been?
From my viewpoint, not having an unlimited budget, occasionally improperly cleaned coins seem like a pretty good deal. The coin still has the same gold content. It looks great. It's graded decent. But it was improperly cleaned.
I was wondering how much everybody frowns on that sort of thing. I'm just trying to figure out if it's really such a negative thing if you want a good deal on higher dollar coins.
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