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Message:: [QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 26392845, member: 104064"]Sometimes these motivations aren't strictly financial. My profile image was my only crack-out game (not sure how much of a game though since I've only done it once so far). Canada 1947 $1 Maple Leaf, Curved Right 7 variety, originally PCGS SP UNC Details - Cleaned, Cook Collection. Submitted in holder to ANACS along with the rest of grandpa's best Canadian and a handful of my purchases, one or two in ICCS holders. My motivations - it ain't cleaned, that's die polish; get the stink of the Cook Collection off of it; get it out of a PCGS holder (personal reasons); and put grandpa's name on all of them (hey, it's my name too). After conservation (lacquer removed) it came back SP62. My personal vendetta with this coin I feel was finally vindicated six years later with the recent Stack's sale of the same coin, where I finally had images of the exact same crisscrossing die polish that PCGS had mistaken for cleaning. Sure, it's also worth a lot more with a straight grade but that doesn't matter much to me.[/QUOTE]