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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1386348, member: 13650&quot;]I think the cleaning issue gets blown out of proportion.&nbsp; I can understand if a coin was whizzed or cleaned with a brush, or polished.&nbsp; Then it&#039;s real obvious and there is serious damage.&nbsp; &nbsp; I don&#039;t feel that light cleanings should be frowned upon as much as people do.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The reason I feel this way is that we went through centuries of having no standards where just about everything was cleaned up until a few decades ago.&nbsp; Then all of a sudden, cleaning became an unacceptable practice.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now it&#039;s too late.&nbsp; Most old stuff has been cleaned.&nbsp; You can&#039;t change that now.&nbsp;&nbsp; There&#039;s no way for every collector to have all perfect, uncleaned examples because they likely don&#039;t exist in enough quantity.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;Then you wonder what&#039;s really changed about the coin.&nbsp; A microscopic layer (film) on the surface was removed?&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s still a coin!&nbsp; &nbsp; There may come a time when these facts are accepted again and they lighten up about it.&nbsp; Maybe they already have.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; MS coins are usually MS, uncleaned coins.&nbsp; AU and less can pretty much look the same whether they&#039;ve been cleaned or not, if it wasn&#039;t a harsh cleaning. So I don&#039;t see what the big deal is in many instances.&nbsp; Harshly cleaned is a damaged coin no matter what.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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