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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2492599, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;m amazed sometimes at some of the things you recommend. Coin Care for example, (the OP has that in his picture by the way), leaves behind an oily residue on the coins. Yeah, the maker claims it&#039;s a protectant, but it really isn&#039;t. And yeah, it&#039;s fooled many a collector and dealer into thinking that a copper coin it&#039;s been used on is a lot nicer than it really is. It&#039;s even fooled a TPG or two at times. But in the end it&#039;s just not good for your coins, and if the TPG checks the coins well enough it will even cause the coin to be put in a problem coin slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>And ammonia ? In my experience, and everything I&#039;ve read, that&#039;s always a bad idea. Pretty much the same thing for baking soda. Yeah the stuff may work as in get something off a coin, but what else has it done to the coin ? It&#039;s kind of like saying you get stuff off a coin with a piece of sandpaper or a wire brush - and yeah you can. But what else does it do to the coin ?</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I know that sometimes a certain product or chemical will do things for you, meaning get something off a coin, that other things won&#039;t. But then you need to use something to get to counteract and/or get the residue left behind the first time because if you don&#039;t then it will harm the coin. And sometimes you may even need to use a 3rd thing to get the 2nd thing off.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem with all this is - if you don&#039;t know all of that when you start - you can end up with mess on your hands. And often a ruined coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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