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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor, post: 381991, member: 5454&quot;]I have heard that sometimes the top grading firms grade cleaned, wiped coins.&nbsp; The motive is unclear.&nbsp; Either the coin slips by with the cleaning unnoticed, or some trickery/bribery has been pointed at by other collectors</p><p>a bit more cynical.&nbsp; Also I have heard that a cleaned coin is graded because it still has market appeal.</p><p>Anyway today at my coin dealer I looked at a nice 1857 Seated half dollar graded XF-45 by NGC.&nbsp; No mention of any cleaning on the slab.&nbsp; Just a straight XF-45.&nbsp; But darn it the coin looks cleaned.&nbsp; Well then you run into the whole nightmare of fake slabs too.&nbsp; It&#039;s a unanswered question in my mind why an obviously cleaned coin would be graded by a top company.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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