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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2232968, member: 112&quot;]Same reason they &quot;clean&quot; any coin - because they think it&#039;ll look better, grade higher, or sell for more. In other words, improve it in some way.</p><p><br /></p><p>A great many gold coins are harshly cleaned, and it is sad that they are because it can be a good deal harder to recognize a harshly cleaned gold coin than it is to do so with a silver or copper coin. Thus many collectors get fooled and end up buying problem coins at full retail price. And the fact that the TPGs have become so forgiving when it comes to harsh cleaning, as they apparently did to the coin in the original post, even more collectors get fooled into buying a problem coin at full retail.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is specifically one of the things that the TPGs are supposed to protect collectors from. Sadly, they do not anymore.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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