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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 7636823, member: 112&quot;]In the sense you&#039;re thinking about - no, it does not. But that&#039;s because what you&#039;re thinking about is &quot;harsh/improper cleaning&quot; - not &quot;cleaning&quot;. But in reality, yes, acetone absolutely counts as cleaning a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ya see, when people talk about cleaning a coin, probably 98 out of a 100 times what they&#039;re really talking about is harshly and or improperly cleaning a coin. And that&#039;s bad, it&#039;s always bad.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cleaning, or proper cleaning if you prefer, on the other hand is almost always a good thing for it protects our coins by removing harmful or potentially harmful contaminants and or toning from the the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are 4 basic and perfectly acceptable methods for properly cleaning a coin. All of them are good.</p><p>1 - distilled water</p><p>2 - acetone</p><p>3 - xylene</p><p>4 - coin dip</p><p><br /></p><p>As for harsh/improper cleaning, there are literally more ways than you can count ! And all of them are bad ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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