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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3045017, member: 112&quot;]There&#039;s something that a lot of folks seem to forget. Namely that there are a ton of books, written by people who are supposed to know what they are doing when it comes to coins. Some of them even very respected names in numismatics. And on top of all the books there are literally hundreds of thousands of websites - all of them, books and websites, tell you about a hundred different ways to clean coins. And just about every single one of them is wrong ! If you follow their directions you will ruin your coins !</p><p><br /></p><p>The point I am trying to get across to people here is that when a new member, or even an old member of the forum asks about stuff like this - they often do so because they are going by what they have read and been told is the right way to do things when it comes to cleaning coins ! </p><p><br /></p><p>So it&#039;s not that they are &quot;trolling&quot; or anything of the kind - they are usually quite serious because they think they can trust the references they have found. Even on this forum, over the years there has been more bad information about how to go about cleaning coins than you can even imagine !</p><p><br /></p><p>So please folks - don&#039;t jump to conclusions, give a guy the benefit of the doubt. By all means, give them the good information, help them. Tell them that there are 4, just 4, safe ways/methods for collectors to clean coins - IF you know what you are doing when you use them.</p><p><br /></p><p>1 - distilled water</p><p>2 - acetone</p><p>3 - xylene</p><p>4 - coin dip</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s it. One should never use any other method unless they are a professional.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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