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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 110451, member: 669&quot;]<b>orio</b></p><p><br /></p><p>If that statement applys to US coins, I won&#039;t argue because I just don&#039;t know.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>However, on the world coin market it isn&#039;t that easy. <img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/frech/e045.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Example 1 - Substantially all Japanese dragon yen coins (1870-1914) have had at least one cleaning, so it&#039;s only exceptionally harsh cleaning, such as whizzing, that brings their value down significantly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Example 2 - Early Meiji Japanese copper (1870-1900) is so abundant in original (dark brown tarnished, but uncleaned) condition, that cleaned specimens are generally worth only 10-25% of what their uncleaned cousins go for <u>unless</u> it&#039;s a special case like the low mintage Meiji 6 (1873) 2 sen, which would only suffer a small discount, if any, for an old cleaning.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure the other world coin collectors on the forum could add other examples of disparity in cleaned coin values from their own specialty areas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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