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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4653014, member: 19463&quot;]Water is a solvent.&nbsp; When you start with water from a well in to a shelf of limestone as is common in many places, the solvent properties of the water are already partly full.&nbsp; What it is full of depends on where you are.&nbsp; Some people sell their well water because it contains so many dissolved minerals.&nbsp; When cleaning coins we want to fill up all those little solvent opportunities with minerals currently on our coins.&nbsp; Starting with distilled water means you have more room for coin crust minerals.&nbsp; Changing the DW every so often means you go back to &#039;full power&#039; in terms of how much room there is for more minerals.&nbsp; DW is cheap.&nbsp; Do as you must. </p><p><br /></p><p>People who make their living buying ancient coins from the people who find them have developed a &#039;feel&#039; for telling what is under the crud and whether it will come out as a coin worth having.&nbsp; The ones they believe are worth cleaning get cleaned and sorted into good and not so good.&nbsp; Coins that they make a mistake on allow people like us to find a decent coin every so often but this is like going to the dentist and hoping he will miss that cavity in your front tooth.&nbsp; They are pros and feed their families deciding which coins are good.&nbsp; Whether you are happy with what you get depends on two things:&nbsp; Did you have fun playing in the water?&nbsp; Are the coins you got the sort of thing you would have bought already cleaned because they were attractive, interesting or whatever?&nbsp; Many of us have tried; some of us had fun; more of us decided to buy coins we can see.&nbsp; Many people buy lottery tickets.&nbsp; Some become millionaires; more have fun looking at the numbers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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