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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 499525, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Why are you&#039;all so serious???</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Come on people - why so serious??</p><p>My method is absolutely safe and beneficial for copper coins like the ones I described. Wow you folks need to be at least a little realistic - why so serious?</p><p>Every dealer I know I deal with probably has used methods to clean or conserve coins at one time or another if not all the time - you&#039;all don&#039;t really think those millions of Morgan silver dollars just stayed the way they appear today do you? Get in the real world!</p><p>Yes, the common advice for the newcomer is don&#039;t clean coins but he is going to wonder after awhile seeing the little nods and winks that dealers and collectors give each other and through reading he&#039;s going think you are selling him a pig in a poke. Good gracious tell folks the truth!!!</p><p>Coin can be cleaned safely and enhance there preservation and grade and certainly their desirability. The new people on this board are not dummies that need protection from the so called &quot;purists&quot; of the coin world. Tell the truth - tell them the whole story - not just your coveted safe (let me not go out on a limb) advice. I was talking about say a 1958-P in VF brown condition to start with - folks it would not hurt a thing my advice is sound tried and true and I stand by it 100%. Is it is the complete story the new person to our hobby wants and needs to know not a glossed over we&#039;ll see later when you gain a brain type of knowledge - with your type of lets play it safe and not give the new people the truth type of speak is absolutely what I will not do - I have an opinion based in practice tried and true - I am not afraid to give advice. This is exactly the kind of thing I would have wanted someone to tell me when I got started - I have done the type of conditioning that I spoke of to tens of thousands of Lincoln cents and never had a complaint from a customer. I readily tell them if it has been conditioned and sometimes even charge much more for those coins because they are worth more.</p><p>The &quot;don&#039;t clean coins ever is&quot; is an absolute - there is no absolutes especially in a subject this non-serious - people it ain&#039;t life or death here - good God it&#039;s only money!!!</p><p>Ben Peters[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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