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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 518671, member: 4552&quot;]Great question actually. So many shout out do clean them and then others yell no, don&#039;t do that. As noted you&#039;ll see posts about how someone uses ice picks, toothpicks, toothbrushes, etc to clean coins and they come out beatiful. When reading those remember one important thing. The individuals that state that don&#039;t care if you ruin YOUR coins. If you try something, such as a toothpick and ruin a coin, those that said to try it have nothing to loose. They said it and you tried it and found out they were wrong and they just say things like to bad, tuff luck, so what those are your coins so I really don&#039;t care. Just made up all that stuff. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Meanwhile back to why not clean coins. For one thing when your wife cleans jewelry she is probably dipping it is a solution that removes dirt, not contaminates that have chemically combined with the item. If so, little by little the jewelry itself will slowly vanish. Same with anything you constantly clean. You wax your car, then wash, wash, wash it. Eventually there is no more wax so you wax it again. WHY? If you don&#039;t eventually the paint will start to slowly come off. Then the car&#039;s metal parts will start to rust. Eventually no more car. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Same with coins. Each time you clean a coin you remove part of the coin. Not so if you use cleaners that have no effect on the metal though. Acetone for example. However, if a contaminate on a coin is there due to a chemical reaction, removing it will take away some of the coins metal. As with the car, the more this happens the less of the coin there is. And this is the primary reason not to clean coins.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Aside from the realistic side of things I myself use a sandblaster to make coins look new again. And battery acid works well also.:hail::smile<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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