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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 483269, member: 112&quot;]Dru I agree with you to a point, in that all cleaning is not necessarily bad. If a coin is properly cleaned then it does not affect the value at all. Proper cleaning or dipping may even increase the value.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, it is worth noting that proper cleaning and or properly dipping a coin is not even mentioned when a coin is slabbed by the TPG&#039;s. Nor is it mentioned in the case of raw coins when they are described by dealer&#039;s offering them for sale. This is because proper cleaning does not harm the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>If and when cleaning is mentioned at all, it is only because that cleaning did harm the coin. And there is a great variance in the amount of harm done. And the amount of harm typically determines how much it affects the value of that coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of that said, it is completely inaccurate for you to say - </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;JUST the fact that it is cleaned should never strip it of its value out of hand because people you never met said its how it should be...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Whether or not you have met someone has nothing to do with it. It is not an opinion that harsh or improper cleaning drops the value of a coin, it is a cold hard fact. And to pretend otherwise is foolish. </p><p><br /></p><p>And it is not something new. A warning not to clean coins because it damaged them and caused them to lose value was the very first thing, the very first, that my grandfather taught me in 1960. Now that was almost 50 years ago. And according to him, everyone he knew and had known since the 1930&#039;s was of the same opinion. So that kind of precludes it from being a new idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the main point is that when talking about cleaning a coin we must, <u><b>must</b></u>, differntiate between harsh/improper cleaning and cleaning. Terminology is everything because of the vast difference between the two terms.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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