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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 830065, member: 16510&quot;]Many explanations given are good but it will come back to this.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Nothing we can say here will give you anymore than 35% of your answer.</p><p>The answer is your going to have to look at hundreds or thousands of coins for yourself.&nbsp; No one gets the &quot;what&#039;s a coin cleaned from what is just crummy coin&quot; without looking at a bunch of coins in both catogories over several years.</p><p>Forums and books can give you many things but to tell the differents you got to &quot;know when you know&quot; and that will only come with study.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After 20 years (I spend about 45 hours each week learning, selling, searching coins) I now can tell if a Lincoln Cent was cleaned 99% of the time, a nickle 85% of the time, and silver 75% of the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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