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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;charley, post: 7806893, member: 5372&quot;]The logical answer is yes. It was cleaned. It may have not been designated as a cleaned coin. It may not have revealed any underlying issues after the cleaning. But, it is a cleaned coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>It does not render the coin unacceptable to collectors. It is preference. It is &quot;market acceptable&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>But, it has been cleaned, for ever more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Me? I assume the majority of coins have been enhanced in some manner by somebody by some process. I am much more cautious concerning coins that are (and this is just my own preference) less than 20 years old, and I have not personally received the coin(s) from the source of manufacture, with original packaging, and/or bought it myself on the secondary market after satisfying myself the original packaging has not been tampered with.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason for this personal 20 year cutoff is simple, to me. Any adversarial effects from a cleaning would be more visible in a piece, by then. Putty/tooling/sly doctoring etc. is part of that 20 year self imposed choice and evaluation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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