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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2713964, member: 112&quot;]Suppose I were to tell you that you that you and every other member of this forum own a great many coins that have cleaned, and you just don&#039;t know it ? I&#039;m saying that because there are literally tens of millions of coins in TPG slabs and those coins have been cleaned. However, they have not been harshly cleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yeah, I know, that&#039;s what ya meant when you said cleaned. But did you know it ? And I&#039;m not being a wise guy, I&#039;m being quite serious by asking that question. And I&#039;m asking it because there are a whole lot of people who don&#039;t know it, and they might be reading this thread. So even if ya did know, do you understand the reason I am saying what I am saying - it&#039;s for their benefit, and yours too, just in case you didn&#039;t know.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a huge difference between &quot;cleaned&quot; and &quot;harshly cleaned&quot;. Harshly cleaned is bad, cleaned is not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now to try and answer your question, learning how to correctly identify a harshly cleaned coin is one of the most of the most difficult things there is to learn in numismatics. Answers already given are ways to identify some, but there are many, many more. And that&#039;s because there are thousands of ways to harshly clean a coin, and most of them will have different looking results. </p><p><br /></p><p>So what do ya do ? And this may sound counterintuitive but the first and most important step to learning how to correctly identify a harshly cleaned coin is to learn what a normal coin, one that has not been harshly cleaned, looks like. It is only after you do that, that you can even begin to identify the ones that have been harshly cleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it&#039;s not just with MS coins that you have to learn this, it&#039;s with circulated coins too. In fact it&#039;s arguably even more important to learn it with circulated coins because circ coins are probably what most of you have the most of. And that means you have to be able to identify circ coins from MS coins, and that&#039;s certainly not easy in itself. And if that&#039;s not bad enough there are a thousand different ways that circ coins can look. And each different denomination, and each different type, well they are all different from all of the others, and still different in each and every grade. It is all of these things, and more, that make learning how to correctly identify a harshly cleaned coin so difficult.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now this already a lengthy post and I haven&#039;t really said anything yet. But at the same time I&#039;ve said a whole lot. And all of it is quite important, mandatory even, if you want to do what you asked about in your question. And it&#039;s just the beginning.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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