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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stldanceartist, post: 1213737, member: 13307&quot;]Oh, and BTW everyone - in case you were wondering, my name is Benjamin.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure what everyone can see on my profile, but I thought it was a bit strange being called by my username...which isn&#039;t any nickname I&#039;ve used in person.&nbsp; As such, still not used to it...</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, from reading other posts in other forums, it seems that opinions (as usual when it comes to cleaning coins) vary widely on the subject of using MS70 on copper.&nbsp; I can understand the frustration of those who hold very firm opinions on the matter - I would agree that the subject has been beaten to death, in many posts, and many forums.&nbsp; I am an organized person (I think the Navy did that to me!) and this is why I&#039;d love to read a complete survey of techniques, products, and results for each type of coin.&nbsp; I hear this quote many times &quot;if you don&#039;t know what you&#039;re doing, don&#039;t clean coins&quot; but the unfortunate problem is that knowledge doesn&#039;t just appear overnight like the Matrix - they can&#039;t just plug me in to a computer and teach me Kung-Fu.&nbsp; (Side note: if they fixed the information in his brain to be technically accurate, why would he still refer to it in the US slang term of Kung-Fu?)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m going to read.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to ask.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to watch what other people do.&nbsp; The problem with this method:</p><p><br /></p><p>*I don&#039;t know how accurate the information is, whether the information was obtained in a systematic and unbiased method.</p><p>*Information varies widely from person to person, forum to forum, book to book.</p><p>*&quot;Information&quot; changes due to current opinion of the group (i.e., what is acceptable practice now wasn&#039;t acceptable practice 100 years ago.)</p><p>*I am curious how much knowledge is based on fact and how much is based on rumor/opinion/faith/advertising/spin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As someone who has been trained in media studies (yes, dance does teach other things outside of being a stripper when you graduate, as most people seem to think) I try to reserve judgement on a product or method until I&#039;ve verified it with facts or actual experience.&nbsp; I try to get around things like spin and personal taste.&nbsp; This posting has been great for me because it is a barometer of how a certain aspect of the coin collecting community feels about this particular coin (and, it seems, copper coins with blue toning.)&nbsp; I don&#039;t have a degree in chemistry (although I was a Navy nuke for a while, which is mostly math, physics, and thermodynamics) and as such the posts on the specific chemical makeup of certain products is fascinating.&nbsp; I&#039;ve found a few - and I&#039;ll always read any past posts you can think of.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, no one has posted any of those yet - and that has been a bit frustrating for me.&nbsp; I feel the greatest strength of a forum like this is that the experienced posters have read those articles and can point them out to someone who is looking for the information.&nbsp; I&#039;m really happy that this hasn&#039;t turned into an argument - I&#039;ve done my best to make sure what I say hasn&#039;t come across as defensive - but I do think that at this point I don&#039;t feel the topic has been definitively answered.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once again, just in case, THANK YOU to everyone who continues to add their two cents to this discussion, and especially to those who have, like me, continued it in a polite and respectful manner.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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