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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 2627660, member: 24314"]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Basically, Yes.   The professional dealers/graders' I know tend to give a little leeway to soft metal coins with hits and scratches that are over 150 years old.  YOU AND I DON'T but we don't matter in the big picture. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> IMO, the 1855 is a nice coin.  If you wish to call it cleaned, that's OK with me.  Since joining CT, I've noticed that many members call anything that is posted as "cleaned." <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Grading is subjective and this is a fine example.  I side with the PGGS professionals over you on this coin. It is 100% market acceptable whether it was actually "cleaned" or not sometime in the past century and a half.  That said, I'll bet you and I don't care about "market acceptability" and have our own standards for grading/damage/ED/cleaning.  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]