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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 1563473, member: 75105&quot;]The old adage of &quot;don&#039;t clean your coins, you will ruin their value&quot; has been around for a long time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t promote the cleaning of coins, but here is where it does not make sense. </p><p><br /></p><p>If cleaned coins are presumably worthless, why do they still bring good money?</p><p><br /></p><p>I was following eBay and Teletrade auctions on holed, cleaned, bent and damaged slabbed coins. They all fetched a decent amount of money, more than half of a problem free&#039;s counterpart.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if cleaned coins are worthless, then why do they bring lots of money? </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not talking about a key date, where a cleaned example would be cheaper, but common date capped bust, seated, and barber halves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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