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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3629558, member: 101855"]Yes, headlight polish does work quite well, but it takes some elbow grease unless you have a drill and the right kind of polishing pads. Sometimes holders are scratched for a reason. When I first started as a dealer, I had a want list for a raw Draped Bust, Heraldic Eagle Quarter. I spotted an 1807 Quarter in a PCGS VF-30 holder. The windows on the holder were so badly scratched that I could barely see the coin, but I thought I could see enough design detail to support the grade. It was a certifed coin, right? As such there should not have been any serious problems. A dealer friend, who was very good with a tile buster, cracked it out for me at a show. When we saw the coin out of the holder, we both said "YUCK!" The piece had been cleaned and polished and maybe AT'd, and yet PCGS had graded it. I contacted the dealer who sold it to me and gave him some "character enrichment." After a heated discussion, I agreed to sell it back to him for $100 loss and sent him the broken PCGS holder along with the piece. As a PCGS authorized agent dealer, I figured that he could give them some "character enrichment" as well. That coin should have NEVER gone into a holder with a net grade on it for polishing. I chaulked up that $100 as a tuition payment. If you can't see the coin in the holder, DON'T BUY IT! I learned my lesson about "sight unseen" certified coins.[/QUOTE]