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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EdS, post: 1406112, member: 36938&quot;]Its like any other collectible item... &quot;restoration&quot; or change alters the value. What makes that uncleaned coin valuable is that it is in its original patina. Unaltered, except by time. That it survived in that grade, all this time, without being destroyed, lost, altered, cleaned, ect... is what makes it worth more. </p><p><br /></p><p>No different if you take two rare winchester rifles... one has the original finish after 100 years... the other has been reblued. The original will always win over with the collecting crowd. Anyone can reblue an old rifle and make it look better than it was.. but it is false. It is not a true item that survived all that time in that condition. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now.. I buy some cleaned coins.. mainly as I got snookered at first, and learned a lesson. But when doing a project that requires inlays of say, 1911 coins in a set of exotic wood grips... I usually buy cleaned coins. No point altering an uncleaned example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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