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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;smullen, post: 218663, member: 5165&quot;]Yesterday while on lunch I ran by the local coin shop to see if thay had anything new (cheap) that I was looking for; while browsing the wall, there was a lady buying a bunch of collecting supplies and I heard her ask, &quot;&quot;If you are not supposed to clean coins, then why do they sell Coin Cleaning Solvents???&quot; as she was holding a bottle of Coin Solv...</p><p><br /></p><p>The guy behind the counter looked kind of annoyed and said, &quot;Because people will buy it.&quot;...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Then he said, &quot;A lot of people don&#039;t really care about the numismatic value of a old coin or not as much as they do if its shiney&quot;...&nbsp; He said if they never really plan on selling them, they might not care what others value them at...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This made me wonder how many people out there do clean coins??? </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Any of you clean coins??? Be honest... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t or not usually don&#039;t as I&#039;m know for sure that I don&#039;t know anything about the process...</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the only ones I&#039;ve cleaned was the three or four I found out in my yard w/ my metal detector... They were about 6-8&quot; deep in the packed soil, heavy with clay...</p><p><br /></p><p>I found a 1907 Indian Cent, a 1965 and 72 Quarter, Can&#039;t remember the year Mercury Dime and a few beer tabs...</p><p><br /></p><p>So I dropped them in the wifes ultrasonic jewlery cleaner with hot water to clean&#039;em up and see what they were...&nbsp; Nothing special, all very circulated..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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