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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeepfreak81, post: 24816186, member: 93888&quot;]Well, winter fast approaches, in fact we&#039;re supposed to get 6&quot; of snow tomorrow.&nbsp; That means my outside hobbies are on hold for the next 4-5 months.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I decided this is a great time to get back at my coin collection which I had been in the process of cataloging, photographing, and storing/displaying.&nbsp; Unfortunately though, it&#039;s been a year and a half and I think some of my knowledge leaked out or got buried so I could use a refresher on some things.</p><p><br /></p><p>My process was to &quot;clean&quot; the coins of dust and/or residue, photograph the obverse and reverse, give them an inventory number and place in a 2x2 with custom stickers I was making with pertinent info on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where I&#039;m fuzzy on what I was doing and/or not doing comes to my &quot;cleaning&quot; process.&nbsp; I&#039;m using air quote for obvious reason, I know not to harshly clean coins even the low end like most of mine deserve not to be molested.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, I would like to get any dust and possible residue off them before they are sealed into a holder.&nbsp; I THINK I was swishing in a series of 2 or 3 containers of acetone, then letting air dry and placing it in the holder.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, i also have a gallon of distilled water and what I&#039;m now thinking I could do, maybe I was before - soak in warm distilled water, then swish in clean acetone?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to do something reasonably easy and quick but still worth doing to help conserve the state of the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would love to hear if anyone else has a simple process they use to ensure as much foreign matter stays out of your coin holders. Also anything in particular I should avoid? Seems like I recall there was a certain type of metal not to use acetone on[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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