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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1337043, member: 112"]Yes, sometimes it does. But rarely will normal wear put micro-scratches over the entire coin or even patches of them in areas of the coin. Normal wear and tear will produce a scratch here and a scratch there. And nor will they all be running in the same direction. Harsh cleaning produces lots of them or patches of them, and they will often all be in the same pattern and direction. But there are also times when harsh cleaning does not produce any scratches at all. Scratches are merely one of the thousands of different things that harsh cleaning can do to a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing about recognizing a harshly cleaned coin is that there are a thousand things to know. For just like there are thousand (and more) different ways to harshly clean a coin, each of them leaves different tell tale traces. And you have to gain the experience to be able to recognize them all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1337043, member: 112"]Yes, sometimes it does. But rarely will normal wear put micro-scratches over the entire coin or even patches of them in areas of the coin. Normal wear and tear will produce a scratch here and a scratch there. And nor will they all be running in the same direction. Harsh cleaning produces lots of them or patches of them, and they will often all be in the same pattern and direction. But there are also times when harsh cleaning does not produce any scratches at all. Scratches are merely one of the thousands of different things that harsh cleaning can do to a coin. The thing about recognizing a harshly cleaned coin is that there are a thousand things to know. For just like there are thousand (and more) different ways to harshly clean a coin, each of them leaves different tell tale traces. And you have to gain the experience to be able to recognize them all.[/QUOTE]
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