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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 1248570, member: 11521&quot;]You should never clean your coins - ESPECIALLY by rubbing them. (Please note that there are ways to &#039;conserve&#039; a coin that do not damage the coin but these practices are best left to the experts.) </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>We could have told you that before you ruined your coin. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Luckily you ruined a relatively inexpensive coin so the drop in value is not a lot. If you sent the coin to a TPG (third-party grading service) you would probably get the coin back in a &#039;Genuine&#039; slab with no grade because of the scratches. It wasn&#039;t that long ago that TPGs would simply body bag coins with damage like that. </p><p><br /></p><p>Once you scratch a coin the damage is forever. The scratches do not heal and go away. That is why 100-year-old coins that have been preserved in high-grade and undamaged condition are scarce and worth more than the same coins that were rubbed and scratched along the way. </p><p><br /></p><p>I hope you learned a lesson here not to rub your coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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