question: are tarnished coins worth more tarnished or cleaned.

[Unknown]

i have several morgan dollars and a peace dollar that are tarnished.
they are in very good pyhsical condition other than the tarnish. would
i be devaluing them if i took some silver cleaner and cleaned off the
tarnish?

[Edwin Johnston]

Cleaning tarnish off coins is generally frowned upon in the hobby,
although many folks have done it in one form or another throughout its
popularity.
I would say that unless you could clean them without the process of
cleaning being able to be detected, that otherwise leave them as they
are, well-traveled through time.

[Unknown]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:51:41 -0600, Edwin Johnston <e...@hal-pc.org>
wrote:

thanks for the info. some of my tarnished coins actually look more
defined with the tarnish.

[spud]

"Edwin Johnston" <e...@hal-pc.org> wrote in message
news:49702e7a$0$7343$a726...@news.hal-pc.org...

> Cleaning tarnish off coins is generally frowned upon in the hobby,
> although many folks have done it in one form or another throughout its
> popularity.
> I would say that unless you could clean them without the process of
> cleaning being able to be detected, that otherwise leave them as they are,
> well-traveled through time.

Last week, at a coin auction, I saw lots of coins that were cleaned,
actually they were very shiny. I don't remember what they sold for but I
suspect it was
below what they would've sold for had they not been cleaned.

spud