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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blissskr, post: 2360406, member: 34882&quot;]From my experience don&#039;t add salt it&#039;s completely unnecessary. Also coins cleaned or conserved what ever you want to call it in this way don&#039;t end up as bad as people are making them out to be if in a nice enough AUish condition to start with. I&#039;d say its safer than dipping as I&#039;ve never turned a coin chalk gray using this method no matter how long I&#039;ve let it soak. I will say that I have in the past scratched a few coins when I used shredded up aluminum foil with boiling water. Now I use a nicely folded flat sheet of foil on the bottom of the container I use and as long as the coins are touching that it will work.</p><p><br /></p><p>I tend to use this method primarily on dirty junk silver but have used it on some nicer coins as well without issue. The thing is if you use it on circulated coins they are going to come out looking &#039;too clean&#039; as it will remove mostly all the circulation character from the coins. Depending on your personal views they may look OK, but in general they&#039;re not going to be market acceptable except as bullion. But any AU and up coins will generally come out looking much better if they have unattractive toning to start with. But seriously for a couple bucks it&#039;s worth the experiment trying on some &#039;junk&#039; silver in both pure junk form and AU and see for yourself the results at most you&#039;d be out a couple bucks as someone else mentioned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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