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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2124223, member: 59677&quot;]Um...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>NO</p><p><br /></p><p>Do not ever clean a coin: it will destroy any numismatic value the coin has.</p><p><br /></p><p>An EXPERT may <i>conserve </i>a coin... but neither you nor I have the skills to do that without destroying it.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the big three big [or the 4 market acceptable to eBay companies] grading and slabbing companies will identify a cleaned coin as such and place that information on the slab. but the value of a cleaned coin is signifcantly lower than an uncleaned coin in the same grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>ANACS, NGC and PCGS each offer a Conservation Service for an additional fee. if the coin has PVC damage or other problems they will remove it as best they can to preserve what&#039;s left for the future.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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