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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 15134, member: 112&quot;]There is only one professional company - NCS or Numismatic Conservation Service. And you&#039;re right - they won&#039;t tell anyone what their methods are. It&#039;s not that people won&#039;t tell you - it&#039;s that they don&#039;t know. But it doesn&#039;t really matter - even when they clean a coin - you can still tell the coin was cleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p>You say you see nothing wrong with cleaning a circulated coin. That&#039;s OK - you are certainly entitled to your own opinion. So is the rest of the numismatic community - it&#039;s just that they disagree with you on this point. </p><p><br /></p><p>But just for the sake of argument - since you are in Britain, let&#039;s say you purchase a circulated 1926 modified obverse 1d. This coin cost you approx 300 British pounds. But it&#039;s dirty - and you think it would look better if you clean it up a little. Would it surprise you to learn that should you decide to sell this coin afterwards you would be quite lucky indeed if you get 100 British pounds - perhaps only even 50 ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Do you still think there&#039;s nothing wrong with cleaning a circulated coin ?</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom line is this - they are your coins. And if you wish to clean them - by all means do so. Just be aware, that if at some point in the future you should ever decide to sell these coins or should your decendents decide to sell them - they will at best only be able to receive a fraction of what they would receive if they had not been cleaned. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s just the way it is - whether you wish to believe it or not.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And regarding this statement - </p><p><br /></p><p>This is simply not true. It&#039;s not even close to true. I will readily agree though - there are some dealers who do this. And then they sell the coins to inexperienced or unknowledgeable collectors. But those who do this are an unscrupulous and unethical lot. To my mind - they are out and out crooks. And if you are buying coins from dealers such as these - then you certainly need to change dealers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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