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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1714843, member: 112&quot;]Samisue - </p><p><br /></p><p>I think there are several things that should be considered, but not everybody is aware of these things. And if they are not even aware of them then they cannot possibly consider them. One of those things is that for a century, maybe much longer since it is human nature as I explained before, cleaning your coins, and more often than not harshly cleaning your coins, was thought of as the thing that you should do. So just about everybody did it. That way of thinking had a specific result.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now it used to be, until just a few years ago anyway, that if a coin had been harshly or improperly cleaned that the TPGs would not slab that coin because harsh/improper cleaning is a form of damage and damaged coins cannot be graded. And that is not just a TPG rule, that is a rule of numismatics and it has been with us for as long as grading coins has existed, since long before the TPGs ever opened their doors for business.</p><p><br /></p><p>The result that I mentioned above is that 80% or more of all raw, ungraded coins are problem coins for one reason or another that cannot be graded. And a large proportion of that 80%, perhaps the largest even, is made up of coins that have been harshly/improperly cleaned. </p><p><br /></p><p>Think about that for a minute, 80% is a huge number. But it is an accurate number and it means that only 20% or less of all the raw, ungraded coins left out there are problem free coins that a collector would want in his collection. So if collectors were to continue to clean their coins, and most of them are going to do it harshly or improperly, then that 20% number is going to steadily decrease. So consider what that means to the future of coin collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is that really what you want to see happen ? I would ask you, do you love your hobby, do you care about what happens to it in the years to come, do you want future collectors to be able to collect original, problem free coins just like the ones you would prefer to collect if you could ?</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, not all collectors have the same point of view. Not all collectors only consider valuable coins worthy of being collected. And there are so very, very, few problem free coins left out there that all of them are worthy of being protected and preserved in their original and problem free states of condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>When you consider that, it kind of puts a different spin on things doesn&#039;t it ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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