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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1350820, member: 112"]Your idea is a good one. But you also need to realize something. The TPGs still slab a lot of coins that have been harshly cleaned, but lightly so. It's kind of a matter of degree thing. And for the most part they only do that with the older coins. To the TPGs, when it comes to harsh cleaning, it's not a question of black and white. Meaning it either has or it hasn't. It's more a question of shades of grey. Meaning yes the coin may have been harshly cleaned but the damage is minimal so we'll slab it anyway. This is another one of those things where the TPGs do what their customers demand they do. Imagine if you will that the TPGs refused to slab any and all older coins like Bust Halves, early copper, early dollars etc, that had any trace of harsh cleaning on them at all. In other words, imagine they treated them the same way that they treat the more modern coins from the 20th century. If they did that, there only be a small handful of older coins that were eligible to be slabbed. And that would make their customers very unhappy. So instead of treating it as a black and white issue they treat as a grey issue. Meaning that if the coin community is willing to accept it, they will accept it too. That is what is meant by market acceptability.[/QUOTE]