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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1964950, member: 19463&quot;]These are the weapons of mass destruction of the coin cleaning world but many coins are subjected to things like this by metal detectorists and others who want to know what a coin was rather than to make it as good looking as possible.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Just an opinion:&nbsp; Don&#039;t clean coins until you don&#039;t feel the need to ask if and how it should be done.&nbsp; Buy coins you can live with &#039;as is&#039;.&nbsp; If you are a detectorist, hang around with others of your sort and watch them ruin their coins before you start on yours.&nbsp; The time will come you just can&#039;t help yourself and you will clean a few and ruin a few.&nbsp; &#039;Experts&#039; who tell you how to clean coins should be required to show representative samples of their work.&nbsp; The fact about cleaning is that the important part is being able to look at a coin and tell what needs to be done and what should not be done in that particular case.&nbsp; Subjecting all dirty coins to the same regimen makes the same sense as the old doctor saying, &quot;Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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