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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mark Feld, post: 994401, member: 11467&quot;]So, please address this for us...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A collector dips a coin in order to remove the ugly toning and make it more salable. He submits it to a major grading company and they award it a grade (meaning that it was market acceptable). Does that mean the coin was conserved and not cleaned?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The same collector feels that the same coin was under-graded, so he cracks it out and resubmits it to the same grading company. But, as grading companies are known to do, they have a different opinion this time, and no-grade it due to cleaning. Which means it was not market acceptable.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So, was the coin conserved or cleaned? Whatever your answer is, it should be based on what was done to the coin and why, not merely the subjective and inconsistent opinion of a grading company.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Cleaning is cleaning, whether you label it that or conservation, and whether you call it market acceptable or market unacceptable. And what is market acceptable at one point in time, might not be the next. I speak as a dealer of 30 years and a former grader at NGC for 7 of those years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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