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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lawdogct, post: 63357, member: 1476&quot;]Most simply stated, all forms of cleaning damage coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>How so?&nbsp; No matter how delicate, cleaning involves the removal of some portion of the coin.&nbsp; This removal is change from the coins original state.&nbsp; Less &quot;original&quot; has always ment less valuable when ANYTHING is collected.&nbsp; Pick a topic from cars to comic books and the same is true.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eye appeal is a different matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess when you think about it, there are 2 extremes to collecting.&nbsp; At one end you have those that collect coins for what they ARE NOT, and at the other end, you have those that collect coins for what they ARE.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;are not&quot;s want things that are as close to the day they were created as is possible.&nbsp; The &quot;are&quot;s want things that have eye appeal and/or history.</p><p><br /></p><p>Neither is wrong, and we all are a mix of both.&nbsp; Its just that the further appart people fall in the spectrum, the less likely they are to agree.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I don&#039;t have the cash to go for the &quot;most original&quot; coins.&nbsp; I&#039;m at a point that I&#039;ll be satisified just to finish a type set first.&nbsp; As my financial status changes, then maybe I&#039;ll revisit my collections and cycle out any cleaned coins.&nbsp; Until then, I&#039;m with you on the $5 Morgans.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line (sagely repeated by many).&nbsp; Collect what you like, period.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If your looking to invest, then you will have to accept the forces steering the market, and that means cleaning is bad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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