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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;imrich, post: 2786013, member: 22331&quot;]I&#039;ll attempt to simply answer your general questions, and others will probably amplify/elaborate. The subject of cleaning/conservation in the Numismatic &quot;industry&quot; is akin to the practice of law in the legal &quot;industry&quot;. Anyone can do it, but if the process isn&#039;t as a group of &quot;practitioners&quot; dictates, the outcome may not be acceptable in the &quot;industry&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s believed that the general public doesn&#039;t understand the services of a TPG and its affiliate &quot;conservators&quot;. I believe that like death and taxes, the only absolutes when utilizing a TPG is that you&#039;ll get an opinion, for which you&#039;ll pay a fee. The TPG will attempt to authenticate, and affiliate conservators may attempt to suspend deterioration without further damage. I bekieve one will find there aren&#039;t any other absolute guarantees, nor should one expect same by the inferred/stated &quot;limited&quot; guarantees.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe one will determine that there aren&#039;t uniform industry standards for grading by the TPG, and there&#039;s appreciable competition between same. The industry is generally unregulated, so to expect any community cooperation when discussing similarities/differences, may result in frustration, possibly hostilities. The &quot;cross-over&quot; process may be found generally futile and quite expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve now sent you images of &quot;mint state&quot; coins which have varying degrees of natural degradation which can be expected of 70+ year old coins in normal storage as some have dictated acceptable, on this site, in a 10 year study. Conservation processes can be applied to these coins which will not further damage the coins, and generally improve their appearance. Will these coins be found acceptable for a grade without the services of an affiliate conservator, as Kurt will tell you &quot;NO!!&quot;(1 coin maybe). </p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully, I can end this controversial thread with my past summary statement:<b> &quot;The recommendation to not clean coins is believed to be very good advice&quot;</b></p><p><br /></p><p>JMHO[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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