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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 2395398, member: 77413&quot;]Let&#039;s see if we can get back on track - we can use my example.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought raw coins online. Before I bought, I copied the images from eBay to photoshop, did my best to adjust the color balance, and thought the color looked natural. I made a modest (cheapo) bid and got a 1919, 1926, and 1927 cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have crudely hacked the coin out of the larger eBay image to show the color.[ATTACH=full]492660[/ATTACH]</p><p>Now my question is this. I already have a coin that is high grade, that I bought using all the due diligence I could muster, and a third-party thinks it is a bit off, and cleaned. It still retains cartwheel luster and does not show signs of stripping or damage.</p><p><br /></p><p>(The selling dealer says he sold them exactly as he bought them, and did not believe them to be cleaned, so if anyone cleaned them it was the original collector. No one intended fraud or malice.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Now we have a coin that is essentially out of the market.</p><p><br /></p><p>If we could restore a bit of the authentic color using processes that match the original aging, why should we keep this from being a desired collectible again?</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not want to clean any coins. I don&#039;t even want any cleaned coins, but a properly conserved coin would be fine. And recovering a coin that I already have would be even better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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