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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1173712, member: 112"]I strongly disagree. Soap of any kind is one of the worst things you can use on a coin because it is all but impossible to get the soap residue off the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>But yes there are ways to safely clean a coin and do it no harm. But what you are trying to remove from the coin decides what you will use to clean it. And I will say this as well, you should not even attempt to clean just any coin. The majority of them wil not be improved by the effort. Many will even look worse after than they did before. And even more are not worth the effort it takes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cleaning is not the hard part. The hard part is deciding which ones should be cleaned at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1173712, member: 112"]I strongly disagree. Soap of any kind is one of the worst things you can use on a coin because it is all but impossible to get the soap residue off the coin. But yes there are ways to safely clean a coin and do it no harm. But what you are trying to remove from the coin decides what you will use to clean it. And I will say this as well, you should not even attempt to clean just any coin. The majority of them wil not be improved by the effort. Many will even look worse after than they did before. And even more are not worth the effort it takes. The cleaning is not the hard part. The hard part is deciding which ones should be cleaned at all.[/QUOTE]
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