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Define "cleaned"

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Depends, dry cleaning or washer / dryer?
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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    Cleaned means that something abrasive was used on the surface of a coin (includes polishing).
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  • eyoung429eyoung429 Posts: 6,374 ✭
    Would that include cabinet scuffing? what about having an albumn with the plastic covers?

    Or do/are you defining intentional cleaning?
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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    people continually try to boil complex concepts down to trite black n white terms and one-sentence explanations

    What is "cleaned" what's a "modern", define "AT" etc.

    Well, cleaned means "shined up"

    how it was done, the degree of enhancement or damage, and the resultant effect on the coin,

    well,

    "they depend"

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,443 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Cleaned means that something abrasive was used on the surface of a coin (includes polishing). >>



    How about a non abrasive dip with acid?


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  • AgMeAgMe Posts: 881
    I'm still trying to define $lut. lol image

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  • morgannut2morgannut2 Posts: 4,293 ✭
    It means leaving marks on the coin trying to make her pretty (so it's not dipping, except at sub-microscopic level). Cabinet friction and die polish and mint filemarks have nothing to do with cleaning--just grade.
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  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭
    Anyone ever try using one of these to "clean" coins:

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    It's completely non-contact, so no possibly of scratches or other lines. No chemicals -- just steam to blast gunk away. Might shine up coins real nice in a market acceptable fashion...
  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,011 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can't define it, but I know it when I see it. image
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Cleaned" means that a coin appears to have been cleaned at the current time. A coin
    can be abrasivily shined up and given enough wear and time it will no longer be "cleaned".
    similarly a coin can be cleaned and still not be "cleaned". Indeed, it's even possible for a
    coin straight out of circulation which has never been cleaned to be "cleaned".

    There's nothing wrong with a proper cleaning but appearing cleaned will make it a leper
    among coins to most collectors.
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