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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1012552, member: 112&quot;]Chris I can only tell you that I can relate literally thousands of examples where it was true. You read the world coin sections of the various forums as much as I do, or as much as I used to I should say. Now you probably read them more than I do. Can you say that you do not recall seeing the same reports, from trusted forum members, that I always did ? </p><p><br /></p><p>I can also relate to you numerous examples of members of this forum itself that have asked my opinions about coins in European auctions or being sold by European dealers and being assured by those same dealers that the coins were not and had not been harshly cleaned. But when they bought those coins, and then sent them in to the TPGs - they came back body-bagged for harsh cleaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now perhaps it is because the Europeans do not see cleaning the same way we do here in the US. 50 years ago if you had asked almost any US collector if his coins had been harshly cleaned, they would have sat there and told you - no, of course not ! And the whole time he would be sitting there polishing his latest Peace dollar with a jeweler&#039;s cloth.</p><p><br /></p><p>But it absolutely happens, and happens a lot.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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