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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 785293, member: 4552&quot;]A really tuff question there. You should get some decent suggestions on how to detect cleaned coins but those are for the usually highly cleaned ones that almost anyone should be able to tell. A very slightly cleaned coin is not so easily noticed. Usually if there is no dirt in those little tiny spots like inside a letter or number, it may have been cleaned. However, many really high grade coins have never been in circulation so they then look like they were cleaned. </p><p>If a coin is obviously well worn and looks new, it most likely has been cleaned. But there too a coin could be worn and just not get dirty so that too is really no proof pending on how that coin has been circulated.</p><p>A dealer I know&nbsp; sent in a Mercury Dime for authenticating and it came back as a cleaned coin. He resent it to another TPGS and it came back graded and no mention of cleaning. Your sending to ANACS may well be similar but the expense to have coins regraded over and over until you get what you want is not necessarily cost effective either. Some dealers do this since they may well make out in the sale eventually. </p><p>Usually when this subject comes up, and it does often, there are some really decent replys, </p><p>As to any cleaned coins. If they are in such a condition that you can not easily tell if cleaned, your not planning on selling them, it should make little difference if they were ever cleaned anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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