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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1071818, member: 112&quot;]As stated, the answer to all your questions are - it depends. </p><p><br /></p><p>As a rule of thumb harsh cleaning can reduce a coin&#039;s value anywhere from 20% to 80%. To some collectors harsh cleaning means a lot, to others not so much.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for what it reduces the grade to, that also is not carved in stone nor are there even any vague guidelines to go by. It&#039;s a seat of the pants kind of thing that a knowledgeable individual will judge based on the severity of the problem. And it is not the grade that is reuced for problem coins are ungradeable. Instead it is the value that is reduced. In this case, my opinion would be that it reduces the value to that of an XF coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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