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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 80342, member: 708&quot;]It&#039;s safe to say all ancient coins have been cleaned at some point. Any that have been dug up certainly have... and the vast majority of the surviving ones are dug up.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one side of ancients that really appeals to me. There&#039;s a big stigma attached with modern coins (i.e coins minted after 1300 AD), is it cleaned? has it ever been cleaned? The price differences are awful, if you buy a coin thinking it&#039;s genuine but then a dealer comes along and says yep that coin was cleaned a few hundred years ago but has since retoned naturally! (This could be said about nearly every coin minted prior to 1800) That&#039;s when you feel as if the coin you have is no longer good enough. Because if you do ever have to sell it you know all the dealers are gonna wanna pay price for a cleaned coin (even if it doesn&#039;t look like one any more), and that means you get alot less back than what you initially paid out and to make matters worse you can&#039;t then get the funds together to buy your next purchase.</p><p><br /></p><p>With ancients there all cleaned, the market is liberal and thus if you buy one that looks naturally toned (even if it&#039;s been cleaned twice in the past), then you&#039;re not going to lose anything. This i like.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not adverse to buying cleaned coins, but i want to do it at cleaned coin prices![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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