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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;huntsman53, post: 63938, member: 1242&quot;]Hey All,</p><p><br /></p><p>There are definitely certain coins that you would never attempt to clean such as any rare coin (very low mintage and other rare coins, Pattern or Trial pieces, struck on experimental planchets, Doubled Die or other valuable error coins)! However, if you searched a bunch of just purchased coins and have sorted out all of the above (if by luck there were some of the above types of coins in the lot) and now you are left with a bunch of dirty, greasy, grimey, well circulated Wheat cents that have very little collectible value anyways, what is a good soaking and good rising going to hurt? Like I said in my previous post on this subject, these coins have been circulated, been in possibly thousands of pockets, been lost of buried in the ground, been washed in who knows how many washing machines, been in boxes or cans with other dirty and corroded coins, so a good soaking and good rinsing can do very little to do more damage to the coins than what they have already suffered. All you are doing, is removing enough the dirt, greade or grime so that they are readable and possibly presentable for sale, for gifts or whatever you choose to do with them.</p><p><br /></p><p>It really goads me when I offer a coin (high value or not) to a Coin Dealer and they say they are no interested in the coin because it has been cleaned and they don&#039;t buy cleaned coins but if you look real closely, this same Coin dealer is selling cleaned coins. Heck, I have even had Coin Dealers say that my coins had been cleaned when I know that had not been cleaned! You might not know it but there is a high number of Coin Dealers that clean coins and then offer them for sale with no mention that the coins were cleaned! I know this to be the case because I have been at their&#039; shop, booth or table while they were cleaning the coins or have seen them as a distance. I put together a complete set of Peace Dollars and went to a Coin Dealer to purchase a 1928-P Peace Dollar is a slightly better grade than the one that I had in my collection. Well the Coin Dealer refused to take my 1928-P Peace Dollar in fine condition that had a couple of gouges on the Obverse but he was very willing to sell me anyone of the 1928-P Peace Dollars graded in Very Fine condition which he had for a very high price and everyone of these as well as most of the other, higher grade 1928-P Peace Dollars that he had, had also been cleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just my thoughts and observations, take them for what they are worth which is probably what my cleaned coins are worth!</p><p><br /></p><p>Frank[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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