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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1098112, member: 112&quot;]jello - it&#039;s important to understand something. Even though someone has had a coin in their possession for 50 or even a 100 years and they know for a fact that the coin was never cleaned in that entire time. That does not mean that the coin was not cleaned at some point before that.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, for centuries it was the normal and usual practice for collectors to harshly clean their coins. Back then, rubbing your coins down with a cloth every now and then was condsidered to be taking care of your coins. It was normal for this to happen, just about everybody did it. And this remained ot be true up until the 1950&#039;s, and for some collectors even beyond that date. And that&#039;s why coins that have never been harshly cleaned and are still original are so highly prized today.</p><p><br /></p><p>So just because someone thinks a coin you own may have been harshly cleaned, that does mean that they think that you were the one who may have cleaned it. They merely think that the coin may have been harshly cleaned at some point in its life. And they think that to a large degree because most raw coins have been cleaned at some point in their lives. It is only maybe 2 out of 10 that have not been harshly cleaned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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