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<p>[QUOTE="TomCorona, post: 648125, member: 17621"]<span style="color: darkorange"> like to clean my coins too... I always take them out of the packaging after buying them and usually get them dirty in my pocket...with the rest of my change...</span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange">so I always throw them in the clothes washer and add extra Era to make them sparkly and I never forget to throw in a piece of peppermint candy to get that mint state back on my coins... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange">just a secret between me and anyone that reads this. that's the most closely guarded secret in cleaning coins with a "piece of peppermint </span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange">candy"...spearmint just won't do it... I've tried...</span> </p><p> </p><p>I would never do that. What I do is put 'em in a vacuum sealed, light evading, pressurized and climate controlled box, packed with silicon gel in all possible locations in the box where there could be human air. Then, I run as fast as I can to where I am going to store them (call ahead to my destination first, of course, in order to have any possible humans vacated for a few hundred thousand square feet). Next, I put myself in a great big plastic baggie (to cut down on possible contamination from breathing), and I roll (cause it's tough to walk in a big baggie) across my floor, straight to their Halon equipped, de-humidified, sterile environment where they are to be stored, put them in there and run away even faster than I got there. Lastly, I stack ten foot thick walls of 55 gallon drums filled with acetone around them (just in case the halon fails to put out the fire and de-pressurizes the environment causing non-coin loving air to seep in) where I have a sledgehammer right next to them in order to break them, thus flooding the environment with this non-damaging, coin friendly solvent that immediately destroys any existing harm that could come to them (until it evaporates of course), then reseal everything in plastic (hopefully before all the acetone dries) and hope for the best. If all that fails, then I just throw them away and get new ones![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TomCorona, post: 648125, member: 17621"][COLOR=darkorange] like to clean my coins too... I always take them out of the packaging after buying them and usually get them dirty in my pocket...with the rest of my change... so I always throw them in the clothes washer and add extra Era to make them sparkly and I never forget to throw in a piece of peppermint candy to get that mint state back on my coins... :D just a secret between me and anyone that reads this. that's the most closely guarded secret in cleaning coins with a "piece of peppermint [/COLOR] [COLOR=darkorange]candy"...spearmint just won't do it... I've tried...[/COLOR] I would never do that. What I do is put 'em in a vacuum sealed, light evading, pressurized and climate controlled box, packed with silicon gel in all possible locations in the box where there could be human air. Then, I run as fast as I can to where I am going to store them (call ahead to my destination first, of course, in order to have any possible humans vacated for a few hundred thousand square feet). Next, I put myself in a great big plastic baggie (to cut down on possible contamination from breathing), and I roll (cause it's tough to walk in a big baggie) across my floor, straight to their Halon equipped, de-humidified, sterile environment where they are to be stored, put them in there and run away even faster than I got there. Lastly, I stack ten foot thick walls of 55 gallon drums filled with acetone around them (just in case the halon fails to put out the fire and de-pressurizes the environment causing non-coin loving air to seep in) where I have a sledgehammer right next to them in order to break them, thus flooding the environment with this non-damaging, coin friendly solvent that immediately destroys any existing harm that could come to them (until it evaporates of course), then reseal everything in plastic (hopefully before all the acetone dries) and hope for the best. If all that fails, then I just throw them away and get new ones![/QUOTE]
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