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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1872807, member: 112&quot;]A couple of things here. Just about every museum there is, regularly takes the coins in their collection and has an employee wipe them all down real good with a cloth. So while you may find scarce and rare coins in a museum, you&#039;ll be hard pressed to find one that isn&#039;t a problem coin. So coins in museums don&#039;t even qualify as high quality coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second thing, for centuries it was the accepted practice for coin collectors to wipe, polish, and otherwise harshly clean the coins in their collections. That practice still hasn&#039;t ended, but granted there far fewer who do this today. But even 20 years ago there were quite a few of them. In the &#039;60s and &#039;70s - the majority of collectors did it. So again, most of these coins don&#039;t qualify as high quality coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s one of the primary reasons why there are so few high quality coins that still exist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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