Posted 08/04/2022 12:29 am
Coin collectors generally don't clean coins and put them back into circulation. SO if these coins are getting cleaned, there's probably a very good non-numismatic reason why.
I'm assuming these are recent finds - which means they've been circulating during COVID. People were paranoid in the early stages of the pandemic; some businesses were sterilizing their coins before issuing them to the public. And some people were probably also sterilizing them at home.
Finally, there are old-fashioned pre-COVID reasons why a regular non-collector might clean a coin. If they found it outside, or even via metal detector, and it was all corroded, they'd probably clean it up to make it look more like a dollar and less like a little green rock. And don't attribute to malice something that could just as easily be accident; if someone accidentally spills Coke (or preferred equivalent) on a coin, they're going to end up with a "cleaned coin" without even trying.
I'm assuming these are recent finds - which means they've been circulating during COVID. People were paranoid in the early stages of the pandemic; some businesses were sterilizing their coins before issuing them to the public. And some people were probably also sterilizing them at home.
Finally, there are old-fashioned pre-COVID reasons why a regular non-collector might clean a coin. If they found it outside, or even via metal detector, and it was all corroded, they'd probably clean it up to make it look more like a dollar and less like a little green rock. And don't attribute to malice something that could just as easily be accident; if someone accidentally spills Coke (or preferred equivalent) on a coin, they're going to end up with a "cleaned coin" without even trying.
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