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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gregg, post: 3156241, member: 90419&quot;]My father and I went to our local coin shop the other day.</p><p><br /></p><p>While flipping through the Peace Dollars we found a couple of interesting examples and the dealer said, <i>&quot;I wonder if a cleaning would help these?&quot;,</i> at which point he got up and cleaned the coins.&nbsp; This isn&#039;t the first time I&#039;ve seen him do this - he was so casual about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve heard it said that if you have a red penny that is 100 years old it has been cleaned at some point because copper doesn&#039;t stay red for 100 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems the standard isn&#039;t cleaned vs. not cleaned as much as it is cleaned vs. not obviously cleaned, or perhaps, not cleaned to the point damage is obvious.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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