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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2856011, member: 112&quot;]Your disappointment was caused by one thing - acetone is not what you should have used. As I have said many, many times, there is a very short list of things that acetone is even capable of removing from a coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>The vast majority of the time acetone will have no more effect on removing whatever is on a coin than ordinary water will. In point of fact, water will remove even more things than acetone will.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whenever the subject of trying to get something off a coin comes up it seems the first words out of anybody&#039;s mouth who is trying to provide an answer are - try acetone. Well, the key word there is TRY. What they don&#039;t tell you, what they don&#039;t even mention, is that most of the time acetone isn&#039;t going to do a dang thing ! You may as well not even have done it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Acetone only works on very few things. It works on PVC residue, tape residue, <u><b>fresh</b></u> fingerprints, a few types of glue, a few kinds of paint, and a few types of shellac and varnish. But that&#039;s about it - it will not remove anything else.</p><p><br /></p><p>You mentioned &quot;dark discoloration&quot; on your Peace dollar. Well, there is only one thing that will likely remove dark discoloration from a coin - a commercial coin dip. Using anything else is a waste of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, that&#039;s the hard part - knowing what to use and when to use it - or not use it. And then you also have to know how to use it properly. There wasn&#039;t anything wrong with the way you used the acetone. Simply put, acetone was not the right thing to use to begin with.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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