I never said one is not. To the contrary I specifically said ALL 4 of the things I listed are cleaning.
I think you can pretty safely bet that the conservation services use - distilled water, acetone, xylene, coin dip, alcohol, and without doubt some...
"Everybody here" was only referring to those who posted in this thread. Including, myself, those who reported it for being a rule violation, the...
I don't know what you've been reading or not reading. What I do know is this - there is a whole lot of bad information out there. Some of it's in...
Could be I guess, but just about everybody here found your title, website name, misleading - and thought it was referring to something else...
There's so much bad information in this thread I can't even believe it ! Magic brushes that won't leave hairlines ? There is no such thing !...
Small problem with as they almost always do ! The TPGs, and dealers and collectors, all use various kinds of coin dip to "conserve" coins, and do...
The difference is in the finish of the coins. Burnished means polished, so with the burnished versions the planchets are polished, with the...
The easiest, and most effective, way to do it is with gasses.
A final suggestion for you, change the name of your website to - Sell Your Coins Near You. Strictly my opinion but I think doing so would go a...
To clean a coin and to conserve a coin mean exactly the same thing ! Conserve is merely a euphemism for clean.
The thing that creates confusion more than anything else is the TPGs' misuse of terminology ! If they would stick with long established and...
Both are equally possible. But I suspect the latter is more probable.
Enough with the epithets ! Continued use of them will result in the thread being closed and or infractions issued to the offenders !
The debate, argument, differences of opinion, call it what you will, expressed in this thread point out to me to me anyway the need to use the...
As I have tried to explain to you before, these designations the TPGs use are completely arbitrary and do not mean anything. Sometimes they do it...
Pros - they're cheap. Cons - they provide almost no protection at all, hits and contact marks can occur right through the thin mylar covering -...
It's not that the plastic imparts toning to the coins, it's merely that it does not prevent it, it still allows it to happen. In other words, the...
There are some 2x2s that are made of archival materials. But when they are it very specifically states - made of archival quality materials. The...
I'm not sure what exactly but something's been done to that coin. In other words it's been messed with one way or another. My guess is the coin...
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