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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2163945, member: 71234&quot;]<i>I feel clean just takes away from the natural look of any piece.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The natural look of this piece is &#039;melted down and made into something else&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The freakish look is the one it has, a very uncommon survivor of almost 200 years, and I&#039;d be far more likely to be admiring the design and preservation than badmouthing it because it may have been cleaned in the past.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many dealers and collectors, especially outside the US, have a fairly casual attitude to &#039;cleaned&#039; coins, because we are not under the influence of third party graders and make up our own minds about things.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apart from their scrap metal value, all coin values are notional and subjective, and I&#039;d not waste time going over a coin for signs of past cleaning, I&#039;d just go with the impression that coin made on my wannabuy instinct.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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