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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samjimmy, post: 159748, member: 3813&quot;]I&#039;ve seen some coins that were cleaned so harshly that I can understand why it would be tough to grade them.&nbsp; Either they were scratched badly or dipped/whizzed and basically the details were melted away.&nbsp; Now I understand this, to some degree (though I still feel any coin should be able to be graded).&nbsp; If a almost completely worn near slug can be graded, so can a cleaned coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I mean, is there anyone here who honestly thinks that either of the coins I posted below couldn&#039;t be graded?</p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.org/showpost.php?p=159553&amp;postcount=17" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.org/showpost.php?p=159553&amp;postcount=17" rel="nofollow">http://www.cointalk.org/showpost.php?p=159553&amp;postcount=17</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There were some periods when cleaning was commonplace.&nbsp; You&#039;d be hard pressed to find some of the early ones uncleaned.&nbsp; It&#039;s not all that surprising that during the last 200 years, someone wiped it.&nbsp; Another example are ancients (which cleaning is more or less accepted and expected).&nbsp; Oddly, these are graded just fine, no mention of being cleaned even.</p><p><br /></p><p>Amazing how they can do that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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