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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Speedy, post: 198690, member: 705&quot;]Almost every coin from the 1800&#039;s and early 1900&#039;s has been cleaned at some point in time---and grading companies will slab cleaned coins as long as the cleaning isn&#039;t harsh.</p><p>Years ago cleaning a coin was a good think and lots of people did it---it has been said that 90% of all Silver Dollars have been dipped at some point in time.</p><p><br /></p><p>So where someone might say that a coin is cleaned, and maybe rightly so, the guys at the grading company says that the coin is still at a point to where it would be accepted in the &quot;market&quot;.</p><p>For what its worth---I call this coin cleaned and here is why.</p><p>See around the stars, and letters, and date the dark area? that is where the cleaning stuff or whatevery they were rubbing it with couldn&#039;t get.</p><p>Take a Cent that you find in change sometimes that is dark...take a coin cleaner and put it on a rag and rub the coin...after that you will see that around the date/letters/etc there will still be some darkness or dirt.&nbsp; I have little knowledge on gold coins, if any, so don&#039;t take my word for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now then---the coin is still pretty nice---and it is GOLD!!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Speedy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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