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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2778068, member: 112&quot;]And that was my point, there is no single definition, which is what you were proposing with your personal definition. But there is a very distinct difference between &quot;cleaned&quot; and &quot;harshly cleaned&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Cleaned means no harm was done to the coin. And, there are many different ways to &quot;clean&quot; a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Harshly cleaned means harm was done to the coin. And, there are many different ways to &quot;harshly clean&quot; a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>People who really know coins know what all, or most of them anyway, of the different ways are that either of those two things can be done. But even some of those people will use the contraction of harshly cleaned, which is cleaned, when harshly cleaned is what they really mean.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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