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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 686370, member: 4552"]Be carefull. My suggestion is if you really want to try to get that haze off, start with the simplist possible and least distructive methods. By that I mean distilled water. And what most always forget is how to handle those coins to be dipped. If at all possible, do not use metal tongs, tweezers, forcepts, etc. Way to many have scratched coins doing that. Using plastic gloves is a decent idea and by the edges only. Now if that doesn't work, and it really shouldn't, try the old standby Acetone. Look up the many, many stories on this web site about Acetone. Again, the method of handling is rather important and don't use plastic gloves here.Now there is a really good chance the Acetone will also not work. So here is one more and rather stupid idea. I had a 1995 Lincoln Cent Double Die in about MS-65, which I purchased for almost nothing due to a finger print. With little to loose, I dipped it in jewlery cleaner from Walmart. Finger print vanished and nothing else happened to that coin. Similar I had a Proof Dime with a finger print and tried the same thing. Also, worked and to this day, no ill effects. Naturally both were rinsed in distilled water after. The bad news is now Walmart has changed whatever it was. They now carry several different types and none look like the one I used.[/QUOTE]