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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1484655, member: 26302&quot;]Excellent advice. I find way too many collectors don&#039;t study coins any longer. Way too many are concerned with &quot;deals&quot;, slab grades, etc. Slow down and enjoy your coins, study them from every angle. If you do, you are educating yourself how a real coin should look, and as such start to learn how to more easily see when something is wrong like its been harshly cleaned or is a fake. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for detecting it from photos, you will be able to see the bad examples from photos but many cleaned coins you cannot tell unless its in hand. Anyone who tells you they can spot 100% of the time cleaned coins from photos, (unless very high quality ones like an auction house would do), is simply wrong. Always pay attention to return privileges, and look a coin over when you receive it to make sure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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