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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 4028665, member: 46237&quot;]It&#039;s sort of a misnomer that one is looking for signs of cleaning. Sometimes, you can see obvious signs of cleaning, sure, as when someone has taken steel wool to a coin, however, often times the signs of cleaning are much more subtle.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many ways one might physically or chemically clean a coin. You&#039;re really looking for an <i>absence of an original look</i>. That skill takes a lot of experience to develop. To take it further, you&#039;re really looking for the absence of a <i>market acceptable</i> original look, since it is quite possible to clean a coin chemically while preserving a market acceptable original look.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what you are calling cleaning is really harsh (market unacceptable) cleaning. That can include a cleaning going back to the year of issue for the coin. Once cleaned, a coin almost never naturally regains a market acceptable look.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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