Just wondering if when you find a very nice cent in the wild, do you dip it in acetone to remove oils and such before you put it into a collector's book? Or what do you do to keep that nice shiny penny shiny? Sent from my XT830C using Tapatalk
If it's something I want to put in a 2x2 then it's pretty nice to begin with. I guess if it was something that I would turn in to get graded I would try that. I've never gotten anything graded before so.......
This, always, even with raw coins that look pristine and uncirculated. One has no way of knowing how and where they were stored, what they might have been exposed to, and what might be lurking invisibly on the surface, biding its time before it begins to create something unpleasant.
FYI, washed coins, if graded, will be graded as "cleaned" and may not be worth as much when put on the market.
Just a thought. I have found plenty of nice coins in circulation. Would not clean. Before you go through the expense of having a regular coin graded, you ought to check out some of the auctions. You can pick up slab coins for a couple of dollars a coin or sometimes even less. Someone else's already Sent that coin in and had a graded. I believe they call these coins filler coins. What I meant by this is the coins are put into a batch of coins going to the grading company to meet a certain quantity of coins to get a good discount. That's only my opinion.
