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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3070530, member: 112&quot;]Whether it works or not depends on each specific coin, and how you define &quot;look better&quot;. Some coins they can make look better, other coins they can&#039;t. And some will in fact look worse, might even become ungradeable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ya see, when you clean a coin all kinds of things can happen. And it depends not only what you use and how you use it, but on the coin itself. For example, some coins if you clean them, you might make things visible that were not visible before you cleaned it. Things like an old cleaning that were covered up by whatever it was you were trying to remove to make the coin &quot;look better&quot;. Or, if a coin is circulated, sometimes even a little bit, by cleaning it you can make it look downright weird, completely unnatural. And can anybody say that makes it better ? Most would say it makes it look worse. Other times you can clean a coin and turn a sows ear into the proverbial silk purse. Buy ya never know which way it will go until you do it !</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the hard part - knowing which coins are candidates for cleaning and which ones are not. That&#039;s the part that it takes years, and experience, to learn. And even then ya get it wrong sometimes - everybody does, even the very best. But sometimes ya get it right too - and it is the successes that make it all worthwhile. There&#039;s a lot of successes, tens of millions of them ! But a lot of failures too. </p><p><br /></p><p>Your specific coin, ehhh, it&#039;s kinda iffy. In my opinion anyway. It&#039;s definitely circulated, and it&#039;s toned and little dirty. Both the toning and the dirt can be safely removed, or just the dirt safely removed. But the big question is - would that be a good thing with this specific coin ? My opinion, not really. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ya see, coins of that age, and that condition, well they&#039;re supposed to look like that. That&#039;s normal, that&#039;s natural. So cleaning it could, not necessarily would but definitely could, make it look unnatural - a little weird. But that&#039;s a subjective thing - kinda like chocolate and vanilla. You might like it, but nobody else would. Or some might and others might not. And that&#039;s just if ya clean dirt off. If you dipped it - it would REALLY look weird ! And the TPGs might even say it&#039;s was ungradeable then.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I&#039;m trying to tell ya is there&#039;s always a risk, it&#039;s always a gamble when you clean a coin. But could be done, safely - absolutely. Depending of course on how you define safely. If you define it by saying doing no additional harm to the coin - then yes. If you define it by saying &quot;make it look better&quot; - only the eyes of the beholder can judge that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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