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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TomCorona, post: 614291, member: 17621&quot;]Question. I&#039;ve read here that if you clean a coin, you may expose hidden issues that were not visible before, thus advisable not to do so. I&#039;ve also read that &quot;doctoring&quot; coins to hide flaws is unacceptable. Wouldn&#039;t cleaning constitute a more &quot;honest&quot; assessment of the coins&#039; true condition since trying to hide flaws would be wrong? Should it be that as long as the coin looks &quot;natural&quot; (while it&#039;s hiding it&#039;s flaws) that&#039;s ok? If so,maybe one could bury the cleaned coin in his backyard for some period of time thus allowing nature&#039;s elements to redefine it, dig it up and then properly &quot;conserve&quot; it, and now you have one that is more &quot;naturally&quot; hiding it&#039;s flaws. I am exaggerating but my point is that this whole cleaned/not cleaned thing seems extremely subjective. Maybe we need a coin &quot;Pope&quot; (and only one), to make the final determination.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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