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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BustCoinageDude, post: 325504, member: 12004&quot;]Bonedigger:</p><p>I agree that most of the cleaning on bust coinage has taken place 1970+.</p><p>having said that, Commercial grading has evolved to take eye appeal heavily into account. I think their mentality was probably. &quot;If it has great eye appeal and not harshly cleaned, pass it and grade it. &quot; thoughts?</p><p>Case and point. I submitted three 1916D Merc Dimes that were cleaned (G4-AU) and they all got graded. Preferencial because I am not aware of many 1916D mercs especially from G4-AU which have not been cleaned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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