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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Daenegger, post: 2128147, member: 74299&quot;]I&#039;m an archaeologist and I&#039;ve restored just about every sort of artifact you can think of, but I am new to the world of U.S. Coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Proper professional restoration of coins shouldn&#039;t decrease their value.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t in many other branch of numismatics.&nbsp; In fact it has exactly the opposite effect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why is it in U.S. currency that cleaning the coating of bacterial filth off a coin considered such a grievous sin; besides the coin grading companies having a monopoly on the service?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Details of &quot;Cleaned&quot;: Not &quot;Improperly Cleaned&quot;, &quot;Harshly Cleaned&quot; or &quot;Whizzed&quot;, but just &quot;Cleaned&quot; still results in a details non-grade. </p><p><br /></p><p>Had you paid the firm for restoration/preservation of the coin, the removal of the same potentially corrosive and usually biologically active residues, it would come out with a clean grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t understand.&nbsp; Is this just like movie theatre popcorn and a captive audience or is there something about U.S. currency that makes it impossible to clean properly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose if you are good enough the company would never know you did it, but it just seems absurd that bacterial matting makes something more gross in both senses of the word. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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