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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2219842, member: 15929&quot;]Dumbest?</p><p><br /></p><p>I think soaking a perfectly good coin in &quot;distilled water&quot; ranks up there fairly high in the dumb scale. You might as well have asked if you should soak it in gasoline since you are obviously fishing for something to do to your coin. Nothing &quot;needs&quot; to be done other than authentication and possible slabbing. Why would you even think such a thing?</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, collecting coins since &quot;before I was born&quot; is no excuse for ignorance on how to properly clean a coin and in my opinion, the coin you found needs no cleaning, no soaking, no rubbing, at all. If anything, a light dusting blast with an ear syringe to remove contaminants. DO NOT use compressed air as it has &quot;lubricants&quot; which can add liquid contaminants to the surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have a perfectly good and valuable die variety which now needs authentication.</p><p>As for &quot;die markers&quot;? I believe that @non-cents was a smidge incorrect on his reference to die markers in that they &quot;never go disappear&quot; because they most certainly DO disappear as the die is used which is why authenticators have &quot;die stages&quot;. A scratch on Stage A might not be there on Stage C. Die Markers may not go away due to circulation wear, just die wear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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