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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1649459, member: 112"]Why ? I'll bet you'll say the same thing that 99 out of 100 people will say - because it makes it look better. Question is, does it really ? Maybe it looks better to you, but people who know coins will not think it looks better. They will think that it looks unatural, that it looks like it has been "cleaned". And that alone is enough to make them walk away from the coin. They won't even take the time to really look at it to see if it really has been harshly cleaned, they'll just walk away.  Well that good old fashioned H2o you're talking about (what comes out your tap) has all sorts of things in it that can cause spots, corrosion, or other damage to the coin. And for that reason you should never use tap water to clean a coin. And did you ever think that while you're letting that coin sit there in the sink with the water pounding down on it to wash the dirt way, that the coin is also being pounded against the sink itself as well as the drain assembly of your sink ? Do you think that repeated pounding against those hard surfaces is not leaving marks on the coin ? I can assure you that it is. So while you might "think" it looks better when you are done, it really doesn't, it looks worse to a trained eye. It's not the dirt being left on the coin that makes it worth more than one you have cleaned. It's the damage that was not done to the coin by the cleaning you did that makes it worth more.[/QUOTE]