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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 106678, member: 1892&quot;]I only answered &quot;Sometimes,&quot; because I personally don&#039;t have the gut-level rejection of dipped coins that some have shown. Dipping, in the acid sense, does damage the coin because even done well it removes material from the surface of the coin. That is fact, and not subject to interpretation or argument. Cleaning, the term I&#039;d use for any non-corrosive application of liquid to a coin, does not &quot;damage&quot; anything beyond the popular interpretation of what should and should not be done to a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been periods in numismatic history when cleaning was an accepted practice. Are we more enlightened now, or just more picky? I dunno - I try not to get involved in semantics.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will say that, as our hobby grows, and it will grow, cleaning and dipping will gradually lose their stigma, if only because there are a finite number of older issues to divide amongst an increasing number of collectors. There will probably always be a reduction in value due to cleaning or dipping, but I don&#039;t see any choice other than accepting such coins as collectable in the future.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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