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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fropa, post: 188650, member: 837&quot;]I&#039;ve been going to ask this question here for awhile, now after reading the thread on all the rejected coin submissions I&#039;m finally going to ask. I have a very hard time telling if a coin has been cleaned. I&#039;ve been looking through some junk silver recently and all of the dimes in a dish were a bleached white color so I&#039;m sure they were cleaned. On the other hand I have several silver coins that I know were cleaned, only because 30 years ago I took a toothbrush and baking soda to them. If I hadn&#039;t cleaned them I would not pick them out as being cleaned. I&#039;ve looked at them at 10X and 30X magnification and don&#039;t see any lines or swirls, and most of them have normal looking color and/or toning..at least to me. Are there any good books or videos that can teach someone to spot cleaned coins while your sitting in a shop or looking at pictures on the net? Any good web sites on the subject?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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