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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 24683763, member: 27832&quot;]I really, <i>really</i> wouldn&#039;t do a TAP-water rinse on steel cents, especially not if your water&#039;s treated with chlorine. Ordinarily a distilled-water rinse is fine, but with steel cents (especially with worn-off zinc), you want to keep them as <i>dry</i> as possible. A dip in clean acetone after the soak will dilute any remaining contaminants, then let it evaporate off and you&#039;ll be left with a clean <i>and very dry</i> coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=74863]@Collecting Nut[/USER], I&#039;ll yield to you on this if you&#039;ve done it successfully with a lot of worn steel cents, but all my chemistry intuition is telling me that a water rinse is <i>not</i> the way to go in this specific case...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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