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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7397402, member: 10461"]Some types do seem to be more frequently encountered cleaned. I'm not really sure why, but with silver dollars- especially Seated and Trade dollars- one does seem to encounter a lot more coins that were cleaned, polished, whizzed, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose it might be because they've been popular collectibles for a long time, and old-time collectors were less fastidious about such things. Foreign collectors likewise. There are some places in the world where "shining up" a large silver coin is still not as taboo as it is with modern, slab-happy American collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7397402, member: 10461"]Some types do seem to be more frequently encountered cleaned. I'm not really sure why, but with silver dollars- especially Seated and Trade dollars- one does seem to encounter a lot more coins that were cleaned, polished, whizzed, etc. I suppose it might be because they've been popular collectibles for a long time, and old-time collectors were less fastidious about such things. Foreign collectors likewise. There are some places in the world where "shining up" a large silver coin is still not as taboo as it is with modern, slab-happy American collectors.[/QUOTE]
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