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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 1246749, member: 21309&quot;]&quot;. . . I just looked at a complete set of Lincolns, 1909-s VDB was fine, 1914-D was a vg and the 1922 plain was great except the owner of these coins was told by someone to clean them up so he soaked them over night in ketchup and than use a SOS to touch them up. BIG mistake! . . . &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Unbelievably brain dead decision.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the last Whitman show I bought a beautiful&nbsp; seventy y/o Walking Liberty (cleaned) that I was going to send to the coin ring guy (<a href="http://www.thecoinsmith.net/Gallery.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thecoinsmith.net/Gallery.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thecoinsmith.net/Gallery.html</a>) to be made into a&nbsp; WL ring.&nbsp; I like the cleaned coin so much I&#039;m going to keep it and find another for the WL ring.</p><p>I&#039;ve known this dealer for several years.&nbsp; &nbsp; he showed me a couple graded slabbed coins that had been cleaned.&nbsp; &nbsp; I wonder how many cleaned coins are out there masquerading as uncleaned coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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