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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2284324, member: 112&quot;]Value varies depending on several things, the severity of the harsh cleaning, the amount of detail remaining on the coin, the scarcity of the coin, the eye appeal of the coin. Even a potential buyers opinion affects the value. Rule of thumb, the value of a problem coin can be anywhere from 20-80% of what a problem free example is worth.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As to what they are harshly cleaned with, no it really doesn&#039;t matter, harsh cleaning is harsh cleaning.There are a thousand different things that a coin can be harshly cleaned with, and many different methods of doing it. What you consider bad, I might consider worse, or vice versa. But in the end harsh cleaning is just harsh cleaning.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s just another way of saying how do you identify a harshly cleaned coin. But there is no simple answer answer because harsh cleaning has many different looks, many different diagnostics. And that&#039;s because of what I said above that there are a thousand ways to do it. Trying to describe them all would require an entire book with several different pictures of each one. And I say several different pictures of each one because unless the picture and the angle of the light is just right, you can&#039;t and won&#039;t see it in a picture. Learning how to identify a harshly cleaned coin is one of the hardest things there is to learn in numismatics. </p><p><br /></p><p>It also depends on the condition of the coin. For example, it is fairly easy in most cases to identify an MS coin that has been harshly cleaned. But it is harder with an XF or VF coin, in some cases. In other cases it is equally as easy. There are just so many different variables that it&#039;s very hard to describe with the written word. </p><p><br /></p><p>Learning how to identify harshly cleaned coins requires experience, a lot of it, and there simply is no substitute for that experience.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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