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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 4900846, member: 105098&quot;]Look, a rare coin or highly desirable coin is going to have a taker for a premium even if it&#039;s damaged or harshly cleaned. It&#039;s not going to sell for full value that it could have though so if you want to shine up your collection with a pencil eraser, brasso, an SOS pad or a sand blaster, go ahead, but don&#039;t say &quot;I had no idea&quot; when the only thing that gave your coins value wasn&#039;t rarity but was it&#039;s condition and you&#039;ve ruined the condition trying to put a &quot;shine&quot; on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was young I used to buy junk cars for a couple hundred dollars, get them running then crash them up for a fun time and something to do then scrap them. Hey they were mine, I can do what I want with my stuff. if it&#039;s your coins do what you like also, but you were warned you may delete value it could have had, maybe all of it. </p><p>If you want to buy a Picasso painting and fingerprint over it, I&#039;ll tell you it&#039;s a bad idea. After that it&#039;s yours to do as you wish with.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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