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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1498591, member: 26302&quot;]Yes, but those clean up fairly easily. Most coins sold as uncleaned coins are from random field finds, so the elements have affected them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Listen, the real low down on uncleaned coins is that nearly every one the sorters know EXACTLY what it is. THis is their profession, and they are extremely good at it. As such, almost anything you will get will be because the sorters knew it was not worth the money to have them cleaned. </p><p><br /></p><p>It used to be different, I used to be able to buy directly from a man who bought direct from diggers. I found a good many rare coins in their. However, every year any other source started containing fewer and fewer decent coins, and more and more slugs and damaged late romans. About 8 years ago I gave up completely, after my source buying from diggers went out of business due to the US import ban on coins from Cyprus. </p><p><br /></p><p>Luckily, I have a couple thousand of these &quot;better&quot; uncleaned coins put away to clean later, but from what I have seen I would no longer recommend buying &quot;uncleaned coins&quot;. Do yourself a favor and buy some coins that are already cleaned and you can see the quality. There ARE still lots of cleaned coins unattributed that you can find rare and scarce coins in. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you REALLY want to learn to clean, just let me know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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