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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1499931, member: 26302&quot;]The little sticks of brass I bought at a hobby store were less than $1 a stick, so I would not risk it myself. Cut them into good sizes for you to handle, sharpen one into a point and another into a scraper. Not much cost at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did not di this like professionals do. They use stereo microscopes and surgical steel to clean coins. They also do it every day and have training. If someone wished to do this, feel free, it just felt too much like a job to me. I tried a few with xacto knives and my stereo microscope, but I just didn&#039;t enjoy it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Please don&#039;t think most of your coins will come out. Most will be like the pic Randy posted, the coin was not in good shape to begin with, so he didn&#039;t do that with his cleaning. That was my original point, these sorters know EXACTLY what to look for, and pick clean almost all good coins. Most everything you will get will look like Randy&#039;s coin or worst. </p><p><br /></p><p>On the UncleanedCoins Yahoo group, quite a few of the cleaners compared their costs of buying uncleaned coins and what the value of their keepers were. Almost all of them lost money by cleaning coins, and you never have a say in the type of coin you will get from your keepers. This is why I am now in the &quot;ignore uncleaned coins and just search for the best deal on cleaned coins&quot; camp. With the quality of today&#039;s uncleaned coins, I simply do not believe you will come out ahead doing all of this work.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or, maybe I am just lazy. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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