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<p>[QUOTE="Owle, post: 1471518, member: 22004"]The unfortunate reality of most people's language use is that words like "cleaning" are used without getting out a thesaurus and looking around at all the variations on the word and alternatives. I had an english teacher once who was quite adamant on the point that we should not use the word "smell" when more accurate words are readily available.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point is that you do not clean coins as my sister was cleaning her silverware last night. Coins are dipped and only by experts. My first dipping experience was a 1932 quarter that I bought for $30 dipped out as an MS65 at PCGS. NGC even brags about having the 1804 dollar, that Breen considered an AU, upgrade to MS62 when they had removed the PVC. Jim Halperin wondered why they didn't 63 it!</p><p><br /></p><p>But just when you think you are good at it you make mistakes and they can be irreversible. That's why I let NCS do the job. I had a 1917 Standing Liberty quarter that PCGS called "questionable toning". NCS removed the questionable toning and called it MS64+ FH![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Owle, post: 1471518, member: 22004"]The unfortunate reality of most people's language use is that words like "cleaning" are used without getting out a thesaurus and looking around at all the variations on the word and alternatives. I had an english teacher once who was quite adamant on the point that we should not use the word "smell" when more accurate words are readily available. The point is that you do not clean coins as my sister was cleaning her silverware last night. Coins are dipped and only by experts. My first dipping experience was a 1932 quarter that I bought for $30 dipped out as an MS65 at PCGS. NGC even brags about having the 1804 dollar, that Breen considered an AU, upgrade to MS62 when they had removed the PVC. Jim Halperin wondered why they didn't 63 it! But just when you think you are good at it you make mistakes and they can be irreversible. That's why I let NCS do the job. I had a 1917 Standing Liberty quarter that PCGS called "questionable toning". NCS removed the questionable toning and called it MS64+ FH![/QUOTE]
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