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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 3059704, member: 24314&quot;]Paddy,</p><p><br /></p><p>I commend you for your morals, and the dignified way you have expressed your feelings about cleaning and alterations.&nbsp; BUT...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The simple reason folks have been told not to clean their coins is so they don&#039;t ruin them.&nbsp; It is that simple.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately and unfortunately, coins have been cleaned (PROPERLY and mostly IMPROPERLY) long before any of us or our parents were born and they will be cleaned long after we are dead.&nbsp; In fact, just about every coin has been &quot;cleaned&quot; in some way at some time.&nbsp; So, I&#039;ll suggest you don&#039;t let any of that bother you as there is nothing you or I can do about it EXCEPT keep telling folks not to clean their coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wrote somewhere that I have been cleaning all sorts of things as long as I can remember.&nbsp; Decades ago, I probably ruined a coin or two.&nbsp; Now, I&#039;m addicted to cleaning coins!&nbsp; I cannot stand to see anything on one that can easily be fixed to the benefit of the coin and our customers.&nbsp; Sometimes I&#039;ll spend five minutes on a coin before sending it to the next guy.&nbsp; Not a very profitable thing for the company but the submitter loves us!&nbsp; When I worked at ANACS in Washington, we even added a sentence on the submission form that we had permission to clean a coin if we needed to.&nbsp; After becoming a lot more knowledgeable - enough to be the principal founder of NCS, I still had a few coins &quot;blow-up&quot; on me.&nbsp; Comes with the territory.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the thing, out in the real world, the dealers who learned how to WORK ON COINS as C-B-D has done are to be admired as that little edge generally makes them more successful.&nbsp; Additionally, the majority of dealers who say they don&#039;t WORK ON COINS in some way to improve the eye appeal or conserve them are&nbsp; bold face <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie66" alt=":muted:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp;&nbsp; Trust me, when I write that you must be the exception. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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