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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brokrken, post: 4561115, member: 111910&quot;]As a fairly new collector (around 1.5 years) I am baffled by the amount of coins that either get graded as Details-Cleaned or that other collectors or dealers look at and say &quot;oh, that&#039;s cleaned&quot;.&nbsp; I often wonder, is this really the case?&nbsp; Or, have some characteristics that may come from cleaning, but also normal handling, now are just assumed as cleaned.&nbsp; Who are all of these people doing the cleaning?&nbsp; I have never thought about scrubbing down a coin to make it look better, before or after I became a collector.&nbsp; Anyway, I&#039;m sure I&#039;ll get trashed for this post, but it just seems to me that many of the coins that get called &quot;cleaned&quot; actually aren&#039;t.&nbsp; At this rate, in 10 years, there will not be a non-slabbed coin available that isn&#039;t &quot;cleaned&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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