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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 920930, member: 112&quot;]I disagree completely. Yes, there were those who frowned on cleaning back in the &#039;60s, my grandfather was one of them and he taught me the same back in 1960.</p><p><br /></p><p>But even he was the first to admit that he was in the minority. His caution to me was not to allow all of those who routinely harshly cleaned their coins to influence me and change my thinking. </p><p><br /></p><p>Back then the majority of collectors did clean their coins, and harshly so. And they thought that what they were doing was the right thing to do. </p><p><br /></p><p>But over the past 50 years more and more people have become educated and seen the harm that harsh cleaning does to coins. There are still those who practice it today, but they are far, far fewer in number than they were back in the 60&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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