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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 443945, member: 15929&quot;]Accurately determining whether or not a copper coin has been cleaned is a very debatable field!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have seen coins body bagged for cleaning yet on subsequent submissions, they get graded.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Copper, is not absolute and can change color according to its environment. Even slabbed, Red copper can turn brown.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If this coin has been in your family since being found in 1955, you have every reason to believe that it has not been cleaned and I feel confident that submitting it for grading would prove that point.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In this day and age, having these rarities graded is your only protection to insure that they do not get inadvertantly sold at an extreme loss to some less than scrupulous individual![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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