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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 3105369, member: 84179&quot;]I think you&#039;re missing something.&nbsp; Your seem to indicate that you believe you made a profit BECAUSE you washed them.&nbsp; This couldn&#039;t be further from the truth.&nbsp; The profit you made selling your coins WAS NOT because you cleaned them.</p><p><br /></p><p>And you missed [USER=27832]@-jeffB[/USER] point completely.&nbsp; He made a profit, but would have made MORE of a profit if the coins hadn&#039;t been cleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only way you were going to prove that washing the coins improved their value was to sell some washed and some in their natural state.&nbsp; Without that data, it&#039;s just your opinion</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember, there are new collectors that access this site through Google searches etc.&nbsp; It is extremely irresponsible to leave them with the impression that cleaning will improve the value.&nbsp; Experienced collectors with knowledge of the coin market and a good background in chemistry can pull it off in some very specific cases, but there is a high probability that a newbie will screw it up.&nbsp; That is why experienced collectors always tell newbies &quot;don&#039;t clean coins&quot;.&nbsp; It has nothing to do with being a contrarian (this isn&#039;t the stock market)&nbsp; it&#039;s about facts.&nbsp; And the fact is that for every coin that has value added due to conservation (the high falutin&#039; term for cleaning), thousands and thousands have been damaged permanently.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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