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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mkivtt, post: 25853176, member: 42887&quot;]I sent 11 coins to PCGS for grading and to my disappointment five came back as &quot;cleaned.&quot; I purposely selected coins listed as &quot;prachtexemplar&quot; (roughly translates to beautiful specimen) on Kuenker, which they only do for a handful of listings. They have a pedigree from the Lodewijk Beuth collection, arguably the best collection of Dutch coins ever along with the Coenen collection, and a paper trail of a century of sales and pedigrees by Schulman and other reputable European auctioneers. For the life of me I didn&#039;t see any sign of cleaning, rubbing, dipping, hairlines, or other alterations to the coins in the photos or when I held them in hand, nor did the previous auctioneers. What is up with the grading standards here? I&#039;ll keep these coins raw, but it just bothers me that coins that are considered amongst the finest specimens on the European market are decided to be &quot;cleaned&quot; here. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thoughts? Has anyone experienced the same? Can anyone point out what I&#039;m missing in these images?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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