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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 1950936, member: 4920&quot;]Let me add to what Doug said, you don&#039;t want to get hung up on these labels. Kanga, you nailed the issue in both your definitions, when mentioned the &quot;coin&#039;s surface.&quot; It&#039;s about that, the degree of impairment to the coin&#039;s surface. If you can live with it, it&#039;s what collectors call &quot;conservation.&quot; If you can&#039;t, it&#039;s what collectors call &quot;cleaning.&quot; That&#039;s all those labels mean. We learn right out of the chute to not clean coins because of how that irreparably-impairs the coin&#039;s surface. Keep your focus on that, the degree of impairment to the coin&#039;s surface, and learn how to describe that better than just, &quot;it&#039;s cleaned,&quot; or &quot;it&#039;s conserved.&quot; You&#039;ll be better off for the effort. Trust us.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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