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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Larry Moran, post: 609633, member: 4580&quot;]<b>&#039;Burnished&#039; is a good word, but a bad practice</b></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a good word. &#039;burnished,&#039; and may be accurate.&nbsp; Use of a pencil eraser, for example, can have results like this, but also can sometimes come out looking like blatant whizzing.</p><p><br /></p><p>But a lot of us just won&#039;t bid on or buy coins that have any one of a hundred signs of cleaning.&nbsp; We don&#039;t have to be right to avoid altered, damaged or cleaned examples, and it costs us nothing to avoid them.&nbsp; : )</p><p><br /></p><p>Folks have told us not to clean our coins.&nbsp; Cleaning violates the responsibilities of stewardship shared by all collectors, to preserve a coin in its original condition to the extent possible.&nbsp; I guess it&#039;s what makes better or worse collectors, and a better or worse hobby, which is affected by each individual according to their behavior.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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