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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;steverr1, post: 1341624, member: 34880&quot;]From experience I can tell you that if you clean always be aware that you may bring out problems with the coin that you likely had no idea were there. Also, if I am viewing a coin the first thing I look for is halos around the stars on silver dollars. Sure sign the coin has been cleaned. High spots on most others that also leave the halo. Finally, if there is a lot of wear and the coin is shiny..guess what? Been Cleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p>From those observations I then decide if I am going to make an offer. I may be looking at the coin 1 day or 100 years later from the cleaning and don&#039;t know if the person had cleaned the coin because of making it look pretty or was sincerely using some chemical to save the coin. Regardless, in the present I will have to make a decision on purchase and may pass based solely on what I see now for whatever the reason was &quot;to clean&quot;. Just some things to think about before you break out the 000 Brillo Pad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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