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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1928589, member: 112&quot;]I would say the exact opposite. Harshly cleaning your coins was the accepted, even recommended, practice in Europe since long before the US even existed. It then became the practice in the US as well, and stayed the accepted practice in the US until only a few decades ago. It largely disappeared in the US due to the advent of the ANA grading books and subsequent advent of the TPGs.</p><p><br /></p><p>But in Europe, it is still a widely accepted practice. And the coins in and from many European collections are very often found having been harshly cleaned.&nbsp; To a large degree it is not even an issue in Europe. Many collectors in Europe, and dealers, think nothing of it at all. To them it makes no difference that the coin has been harshly cleaned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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