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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 2469889, member: 78298&quot;]I have a question that I need answered. I will get to it. Sorry for the long post. When someone claims a 150 year old coin has never been cleaned, you really don&#039;t know (in most cases) the 100 year history of that coin before you were born. (Just using round numbers.)</p><p>I assume, that most coins at one time or another have been cleaned, and here is why I think that. There must have been a time, 100 years ago or whenever, when it wasn&#039;t known that cleaning damages coins. And coin collectors (rich middle aged men for the most part) were proud of their collection, and wanted to display their collection, to friends, visitors, relatives, and themselves. And they wanted the coins to look good. Clean, shiny and new and not dingy and uncleaned. So, these coins were cleaned.</p><p>Here is my question. At what point in history (50 years ago? More?) was it decided/ discovered by the coin community that cleaning coins does more harm than good and was highly frowned upon/ discouraged?</p><p>Thanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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