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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zekeguzz, post: 831524, member: 15455&quot;]As an example:</p><p>If you have a $200 coin from an inherited collection, large or small, the person was saving it for some reason and let it get that way maybe not knowing how to preserve it any better than what he/she was doing.&nbsp; Here his niece or daughter inherits it and thinks it should be cleaned not realizing that in coin collecting cleaning is a great big NO NO. This because the worst thing to do is scratch the coin and any kind of &quot;common&quot; cleaner will do that.&nbsp; Well the coin gets cleaned and with one of the worst scratchers in the world, Brillo.&nbsp; Now the coin is nice and shiny and pretty so the daughter takes it to someone like a coin dealer/jewler and says &quot; I have this coin my father was saving and he said it was worth $200.&nbsp; When the dealer/jewler examines the coin he/she is flabbergasted because of what he/she sees. He say this coin is only worth face value because somebody cleaned and it is not collectible anymore.</p><p>I&#039;m sorry to say if you did what you said you did with Brillo then you fit the shoes of the above daughter.&nbsp; There is NO WAY to recover that coin from what the daughter did to it.&nbsp; Very sorry, almost tragic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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