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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 520291, member: 112&quot;]This is by far the best answer in my opinion. Once a coin is altered it is forever altered. Yes, the signs of a coin being harshly cleaned can be undone by carrying the coin in your pocket with your change. It might take a couple years, but it can be done.</p><p><br /></p><p>But in reality what have you done by doing this ? Coins are cleaned, polished, whizzed, oiled (yes I know oil can be used to protect them but let&#039;s leave that out of this thread) - whatever - they are altered most od time in an effort to make them look better. Either for the owner or to make them look better for a new potential owner. The latter would obviously be deception. This is done to try and get a better price when selling the coin than you would if you had left ot alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, say you take that harshly cleaned coin and put it in your pocket. For the sake of argument, let&#039;s say when you did this the coin was worth $50. Two years later when the signs of cleaning have been worn away the coin is now worth $20. What did you gain ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah you have a coin that nobody is going to say it has been harshly cleaned, but so what ? You could have sold it in its harshly cleaned condition and bought 2 more in lesser condition - and still had $10 left over and saved yourself 2 years. So it serves no purpose to do this. Of course if the coin had not been harshly cleaned to begin with it would been worth over $100 in its dirty condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>As was discussed in another thread - you can only &quot;fix&quot; some problems. Others cannot be fixed no matter what you do. A polished coin is one of those that cannot be fixed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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