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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;I_Found_One, post: 261335, member: 9749&quot;]I called PCGS, and got conflicting answers. One operator said it had been cleaned, so not to bother.&nbsp; The second time I called, I actually spoke with an evaluator. I explained if my brief soap and water followed by a distilled water bath constituted &quot;cleaning&quot;, then I wasn&#039;t going to bother sending it in. He said not to rush to judgement, that it may, but not necessarily, be regarded as a cleaning. It simply depended on the subjective evaluation of the grader.</p><p><br /></p><p>With the coin looking rather oxidized for the moment, I don&#039;t know if that helps or hurts my chances. For what it&#039;s worth, after I had lightly soaped it, it looked about as good as new. </p><p><br /></p><p>Frankly, if the oxidized appearance isn&#039;t a hit, then I really don&#039;t care. The missing edge IS authentic and the coin is otherwise uncirculated. But the grading process is simply too expensive for me to just toss it out there only to have it come back in a body bag. Nor am I enclined to, as one person suggested, clean it AGAIN in acetate simply to take the smudges off. For now, the coin&#039;s status is in limbo with me because I&#039;m not sure whether the $130 hit I&#039;ll take to have it graded is worth it against the marketable value of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>See, easy! :headbang:</p><p><br /></p><p>ANACS I know nothing about. NGC I&#039;ve heard actually does work with some vendor(s) that does/do cleaning. I don&#039;t know if that means I should send to ANACS or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>To be honest, the coin is quite a novelty, and in the end, I may just keepit for my own personal self <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again. Keep the comments coming. I&#039;m learning by your responses. :bow:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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