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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 3101297, member: 78298&quot;]You can rinse off the coin. Air dry or very lightly with a gentle cloth.</p><p>But if it is any kind of rare coin or key date, any attempt to conserve it by a non professional will kill the value of it.</p><p>If it is just a junk silver coin, or an old wheatie that isn&#039;t rare you could clean it, since you probably aren&#039;t selling it anyway.</p><p>I&#039;ve seen You Tube videos where a guy is metal detecting, digging up Indian Heads and old early Lincolns, and then he proceeds to clean them with a WIRE BRUSH.</p><p>I told him he is turning a $10 coin into a 1 cent coin, but he said he didn&#039;t care and likes the way they look (after he destroys them).</p><p>But in terms of collecting coins, cleaning is a no-no. Coins were routinely cleaned many years ago, people proud of their collections and wanted to show off shiny clean coins. But that kind of cleaning strips off a layer of metal on the surface which can never be returned, and close examination shows that these coins are ruined, even though they may look clean.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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