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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 511237, member: 4552&quot;]Yes there was a time in history when people cleaned coins. Yes they cleaned oil paintings, antique furnature, etc. I once made a bench grinder stand out of a sewing machine table that was about 90 years old. Destruction of historic relics is what is going on in the Middle East. So we should follow thier lead? Cleaning a coin could ruin it as much as what they are doing to ancient relics in those areas. Common practice in your life. I could not even imagine how things are there. Glad I&#039;m here. </p><p>Washing and waxing a car is rather about as close to taking care of antiques as a rocket ship compared to a horse and buggy. Nothing in common. Obviously never watched the Antique Road Show. People want originality, not cleaned, painted, redone historic items. If that was the norm, people would be at the museums giving the mummys a bath. Hey look, the Mona Lisa Painting is fading. Lets run it through a car wash.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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