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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ajm229, post: 63445, member: 3350&quot;]Pretty well everybody&#039;s gonna say that cleaning is bad. Granted, it&#039;s way overstated, and many people freak out if you tell them their coin&#039;s been cleaned, or if they suddenly realize that it devalues their coins. But, at least to me, if I can find a coin with the original mint luster, it&#039;s a lot prettier and it looks nicer in my albums than a coin that has no luster due to cleaning. Now, I know you&#039;ll argue with me over Lincoln cents because the luster goes away with circulation, and if you clean an old Lincoln cent, normally it looks better. However, I am of the opinion that imagination is half the fun, and if I can imagine all the places that 1909-VDB I found last night went in the last CENTURY <u>IN CIRCULATION</u> then to be perfectly honest, I&#039;d rather have the brown one over the copper-coloured cleaned one. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, when it comes to silver, I haven&#039;t branched out too much into it yet because it escapes my means a little bit at present, but I will always take the lustrous coin over the cleaned and non- or not-so-lustrous coins. I also won&#039;t buy cleaned coins if they don&#039;t look really appealing, and I haven&#039;t found many that I could tell were abrasively cleaned that still looked good. Dip cleaning is another story, and I&#039;m not so familiar with it yet, so I&#039;ll hold off judgement for a bit. </p><p><br /></p><p>Either way, non-cleaned coins just look better to me than cleaned coins, and I&#039;d actually rather have great-looking circulated coins than proof, mint state, never circulated coins because I think they look better in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>This post probably didn&#039;t help one bit in bringing you closer to an answer, but I think the previous post sums it up: if you are collecting to collect, get whatever you think looks good, be it cleaned, uncleaned, MS, or proof; but if you are collecting for investment purposes, uncleaned is the only way to go.</p><p><br /></p><p>~AJ[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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