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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jimij, post: 145770, member: 5475&quot;]Its usually obvious when a coin has been cleaned. That peace dollar looks like someone took an eraser to it.</p><p>Best I can describe it is when the coin has a unatural shine to it with a bland luster. Also if cleaned with a cloth or other abrasive you will see lots of small scratches that look like hairlines going in a general direction. You can almost imagine someone scrubbing the coin in that very direction at one time. Retoned are the hardest to tell and most TPG&#039;s will error on the side of caution when it comes to cleaned coins. Dipped coins are a different story. While it removes some of the luster if done right it can actually cause a coin to look better and still be graded.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen lots of cleaned coins. The only place around here with coins is a pawnshop guy who deals in them a lot. One of the larger Ebay sellers. He had this one customer who sold him lots of coins and everyone of them the guy cleaned before he sold them. Comparing them to uncleaned coins makes is fairly obvious.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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