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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SilverSurfer, post: 905847, member: 21603&quot;]In today&#039;s coin collecting market, the state of preservation of the surface of the coin has become a critically important element in judging what the value of the coin is. If a coin has been cleaned, its value is significantly reduced. If the coin bears a common date in the twentieth century (1900 to 1999) and it has been cleaned, most dealers throw them on a scale and pay you a small premium over <a href="http://coins.about.com/od/coinsglossary/g/bulliondefined.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.about.com/od/coinsglossary/g/bulliondefined.htm" rel="nofollow">bullion</a> value for them.&nbsp; If you send common-date coin from the twentieth century which has been cleaned to a top-tier <a href="http://coins.about.com/od/coinsglossary/g/gradingservice.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.about.com/od/coinsglossary/g/gradingservice.htm" rel="nofollow">grading service</a> (such as PCGS or NCG,) it will probably come back to you in a <a href="http://coins.about.com/od/coinsglossary/g/coin_body_bag.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.about.com/od/coinsglossary/g/coin_body_bag.htm" rel="nofollow">body bag</a>, and you will have wasted your money trying to get it <a href="http://coins.about.com/od/coinsglossary/g/slabbeddefined.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.about.com/od/coinsglossary/g/slabbeddefined.htm" rel="nofollow">slabbed</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I am trying so hard to stress to you is that cleaning your coins is a surefire way to destroy the surface of a coin, along with a good portion of the coin&#039;s value. In all fairness, grading services do make occasional exceptions regarding the cleaning rule, especially for coins that are so rare that people are glad to acquire one despite the damaged surface. On coins of the ninteenth century and earlier (dates in the 1800s and before,) the grading services are also more lenient about cleaned coins, but generally only if the coin was cleaned many, many years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>***The reference above came from this link***</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://coins.about.com/od/caringforcoins/f/shiny_coins.htm?nl=1:smile" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.about.com/od/caringforcoins/f/shiny_coins.htm?nl=1:smile" rel="nofollow">http://coins.about.com/od/caringforcoins/f/shiny_coins.htm?nl=1:smile</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Make of it what you will![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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