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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cherd, post: 3047285, member: 24754&quot;]This is an excellent point. Taken literally, what I said in my previous post was, &quot;You don&#039;t have to be a professional, you can do it if you become a professional&quot;, which is circular. But this is why I continuously put &quot;professional&quot; in quotes. I was using the word to specifically refer to people that offer conservation as a paid service. The point that I was trying to make by this is that action on a coin shouldn&#039;t be evaluated based on whether it was paid for, but by what was actually done.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed. We just have to be careful to not settle into a culture where:</p><p>-If you do X, it damages the coin</p><p>-If a &quot;professional&quot; is paid to do X, it is not damage</p><p><br /></p><p>As passionate as most collectors tend to be on the subject of cleaning, it&#039;s extremely hypocritical when this is the case. You can either demand originality, or give in to our natural preference for beauty. You can&#039;t have it both ways unless you can afford the few coins that satisfy both criteria (most of us don&#039;t fit into this category).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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