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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vroomer2, post: 1064418, member: 80251&quot;]Conserving a coin is fine. Dipping a coin in a protective coating so it is no longer exposed to the elements is fine in certain cases. Like the Fugio with a bad case of verdigis/corosion that was refused by NCS.... </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Cleaning a coin is all kinds of wrong. When I say cleaning, I refer to the act of polishing it up to make it &quot;new.&quot; Go to a show sometime or one of the dealers in your area. Check out some SLQs. If they are BLAST WHITE/BLAZING WHITE and the shield&#039;s star has no lines in it/the star is not there, chances are, the coin was cleaned. Thus, the need for loupes and microscopes to see the coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am trying my hardest to complete an XF+ raw SLQ set for an album. Unfortunately, I see a lot of cleaned coins. I would be more than happy with an XF coin that is gray in color vs a cleaned XF coin that is &quot;minty fresh.&quot; Cleaning and conserving and preserving are all chemical reactions. When a coin is cleaned or shined up, the chemical agent actually takes a layer of the coin off to get to a &quot;new&quot; layer shiney layer. To me, that is defacing the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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