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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bones-65, post: 8233242, member: 136030&quot;]Its difficult to keep COPPER coins from turning (toning) I&#039;ve seen LOTS of them turn (tone) in slabs.</p><p>If you don&#039;t TEST acetone to be pure, it will leave a chemical residue, so that&#039;s bad.</p><p>When I&#039;ve washed a few with Dawn, I only us maybe two drops in say a cup of distilled water (copper Lincoln&#039;s).</p><p>There was a discussion about this not to long ago on a professional coin grading service&#039;s forum.</p><p>With some of the same results here.</p><p>A coin Should NEVER Undergo any type of a CLEANING,</p><p>Many of the higher end collector&#039;s commented to ONLY using PURE acetone,</p><p>Some stated that a gentle dawn wash will not react to copper.</p><p>In most cases when I&#039;ve did a Dawn Lincoln wash the coin&#039;s were already FULL BROWN.</p><p>Seeing how genuine PURE acetone is risky to find and all I want to do is make sure that RAW full brown Lincoln&#039;s don&#039;t get put away with a chemical rich finger print, Dawn is a decent option for me, I&#039;ll take a more toned Brown over finger print etched that also causes chemical toning.</p><p>I feel certain that the most of us here are trying to do the best we can with our collections.</p><p>So, I may do something to a $.80 Lincoln that I wouldn&#039;t do to some other $10,000 coin! I have no consideration in putting my Lincoln collection in a bank vault (Safety Deposit Box), but if I had a $10,000 coin I would likely change my thinking.</p><p>My old 2000 Crown Victoria (car) had to set parked outside its entire life, but I couldn&#039;t have done that if the car had been something of a $90,000 vehicle. In fact If I didn&#039;t have some climate controlled place to park (store) a $90,000 car I would never OWN ONE!</p><p>Around 2002 we had a pretty cold winter, I had a $3,000 dollar motorcycle and I had it in a wooden storage building, all WAXED up.</p><p>One very cold night I had to get something out of the building and I noticed the entire motorcycle was FROSTED WHITE!!! A little later the wife sees me pushing it through the front door of the house! what a MESS, it spent the rest of the winter in our living room!</p><p>Come spring I sold the motorcycle. My mechanics tools was laying in FROZEN water inside my metal draw tool box, It made me ill! </p><p>So, when we talk about using a pencil eraser to clean a coin, for me I put that in a class of coins that if I did that to, its a junk or trash coin to start with, for me cleaning that class of coins I&#039;d go for the baking soda and dawn paste.</p><p>No! I would ever do that to any Lincoln going into my collection, that&#039;s a different class of coins.</p><p>I can&#039;t ever own a high end automobile, I have no place to store it, but beyond that if I did I couldn&#039;t drive it on the roads in the area I live, it would be to much abuse to the car. So, I can&#039;t bring myself to EVER buy a NEW car at ALL!!! So, I&#039;m left to used cars and a MAX value of around $16,000 and that&#039;s the wife&#039;s car, for me the limit at present is $4,000 I only paid $3,100 for the Crown Vic in 2014, then I sold my Focus for $2,100 ($1,000 turn around).</p><p>I have to put things in class, I metal detect for coins, not for my collection, mainly for Silver coins, and just the fun of it (both my older brothers metal detect)</p><p>So, I come across thousands of coins in a different class that HAS to be cleaned, but the silver ones only need a water rinse to get off the lose dirt, the metal in most cases has already been chemically clean with acids in the ground LoL! I&#039;ve found silver coins in the ground that were shinny-er then when they were lost 90 years ago.</p><p>I have a work watch and I have the other watch,</p><p>I have work cloths, casual clothes, &amp; a piece or two of dress clothes, I&#039;ve got new pants that I wore to my Dad&#039;s funeral ten years ago, there still new, never washed.</p><p>I hate to see my $1,000 dollar car setting outside with 6&quot; of snow on it, but a adding a $25,000 garage to my $50,000 house isn&#039;t an option, nor is buying a $160.000 home and moving.</p><p>How would I clean a $100,000 extremely RARE coin, I wouldn&#039;t! But, I&#039;d be a bit scared to hold it (really, I probably wouldn&#039;t).</p><p>My brother-n-law a couple of years ago pulls up in my driveway in a brand new $60,000 Corvette! he&#039;s all excited, I walked around it, I opened the door and looked in it (I didn&#039;t get in it) he says I&#039;ll take you for a DRIVE! I said Ray, I don&#039;t think so, I said I&#039;m not bonded anymore (I used to work as a mechanic) and I wouldn&#039;t want the responsibility of possibly damaging the skin on one of the seats.</p><p>Nope, not riding in one of the cars, I&#039;ll walk first. Yes! there is automobiles to pricey for me to sit in, in regards to if you break it or damage it, you fix it. That&#039;s the way I was brought up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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