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<p>[QUOTE="Modern Commens, post: 787736, member: 20737"]<b>statequarterguy: Here's the excerpt.</b></p><p> </p><p><b>The second rule </b>of cleaning coins is take your coins to a professional do the cleaning. Professional dealers often offer a coin cleaning service using a method called "dripping" that should not be attempted by an amateur. Always handle your coins by the edges to avoid fingerprints on the surfaces. </p><p> </p><p>This was posted in an article about coin cleaning in My Coin Collecting and a few other places that I found when I surfed the net looking fo other articles on 'dripping' or coin cleaning after I read it there. It could very well be a typo because I cannot find any other articles regarding it. I think this was the first place I came across the article, though I am not sure it originated there. I do know the conservationists are expert at coin restoration (cleaning, whatever you want to call it) and I was curious to know if they indeed used this method. Thanks for responding. If you can find anything regarding it I would love to hear more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Modern Commens, post: 787736, member: 20737"][B]statequarterguy: Here's the excerpt.[/B] [B]The second rule [/B]of cleaning coins is take your coins to a professional do the cleaning. Professional dealers often offer a coin cleaning service using a method called "dripping" that should not be attempted by an amateur. Always handle your coins by the edges to avoid fingerprints on the surfaces. This was posted in an article about coin cleaning in My Coin Collecting and a few other places that I found when I surfed the net looking fo other articles on 'dripping' or coin cleaning after I read it there. It could very well be a typo because I cannot find any other articles regarding it. I think this was the first place I came across the article, though I am not sure it originated there. I do know the conservationists are expert at coin restoration (cleaning, whatever you want to call it) and I was curious to know if they indeed used this method. Thanks for responding. If you can find anything regarding it I would love to hear more.[/QUOTE]
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