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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1471143, member: 31533&quot;]Funny, I just put the word &quot;cleaning&quot; into the search section here on CT and it came up with more than 5 pages of threads. So there has been a lot of talk about cleaning coins on this forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably a lot more people will talk about it, as it seems to be something that newbie collectors really want to do to pretty up their dirty coins. But it is not the same as cleaning a car. </p><p><br /></p><p>No one normally inspects the car metal that was cleaned to see if there was cleaning before they buy, and they also don&#039;t generally value a car more highly uncleaned than clean. Coins, however, are more valued - in general - much more highly when they are &quot;uncleaned&quot;, meaning that no artificial methods were used that would harm the original surfaces. Many coins have been ruined buy people looking to clean them.</p><p><br /></p><p>And anyone who has not checked out whether their coins are truly valuable or just junk (melt price) silver should not be cleaning coins either. Because the cleaning process does effect the coins, and experts in numismatics are able to tell when a coin has been cleaned. That dramatically lowers the value on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I would never suggest that anyone watch a youtube video on anything and immediately try it, without some thought ahead of time. There are too many idiots out there putting up their videos; people who have no idea of what is what numismatically or otherwise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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