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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 162398, member: 3011&quot;]Moen,&nbsp; I&#039;m just trying to help John Locke stop spinning in his grave.</p><p><br /></p><p>But to get back on topic for a minute, if a circulated coin in EF or VF condition has been cleaned by, say, dipping, and it is allowed to naturally retone after a few years, can the cleaning still be detected?&nbsp; Is the coin still considered damaged?&nbsp; Does it regain its full circulated value?&nbsp; I know that once the mint luster is destroyed on an uncirculated coin it is permanently damaged.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m not so sure about coins that lost the luster long ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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