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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TomCorona, post: 830636, member: 17621&quot;]I&#039;ll even admit that I ruined a couple coins when I first jumped into the hobby. Comparatively, to a lot of folks in here, I&#039;m still a novice. But I&#039;m a more experienced novice now than I was a year ago. In that year..I&#039;ve learned that copper is the toughest to &quot;conserve&quot;. Silver not as much but can be a challange. </p><p>I&#039;m on the pro side &quot;conserving&quot; coins. Most are not. I&#039;ll also admit that I&#039;m not so quick to want to clean anything as I was a year ago. </p><p>However comma...it can be done and is done routinely to circulated coins. The purists don&#039;t even want you to look at a coin the wrong way. Lots of coins have gotten messed up from cleaning. Granted. But a lot more HAVEN&#039;T in my estimation. Go to any coin shop and look at what they have on display and I defy anyone to tell me which ones have been cleaned and which ones weren&#039;t. Fact is that most of them were indeed cleaned. Just not clean badly. It is much easier than everybody makes out that it is, and certainly, it has pitfalls that one can easily succomb to, but, overall, the &quot;don&#039;t ever clean a coin&quot; nonsense is just that..nonsense. If coin dealers/shops only sold coins that were never cleaned. they wouldn&#039;t have too much to put on display and make a profit. </p><p>My advice would be...clean away. But study the cleaning agent you&#039;ll be using, combined with the chemical properties of the coin to be cleaned, the likely before and after effects (google works great for this), and have at it. Ruin a coin or two....you&#039;ll be all the better collector for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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