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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tmoneyeagles, post: 4495523, member: 17557&quot;]I was waiting for you to slide in this thread and make that point.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most dastardly example that comes to mind are Bust Halves. Finding original, high grade Bust Halves can be a fool&#039;s errand sometimes, but many of them, of course, have been properly cleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always seen the properly/improperly cleaned dichotomy as similar to market acceptable toning. There is a degree of cleaning that the majority of numismatists will seem to accept, and the same is true for some rainbows here and there. Now as for why we accept 18th and 19th century gold with hairlines running all over the place as &quot;original&quot; is beyond me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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