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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 163544, member: 112&quot;]There is no cloth, cotton balls, Q-Tips or anything else that you can use to touch the surface of the coin that will not leave marks. Touching it with anything will leave marks. I&#039;m sorry, but that&#039;s just the way it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the water - it&#039;s not the water itself that allows those with experience to tell the coin has been cleaned, it is what the water does to the contaminants on the surface of the coin. Yes it will remove some, but it will not remove all of them. To the untrained eye it may appear that coin looks better. But to somebody who knows what they are looking at they can tell that coin was cleaned. This is because of the traces of contaminants left on the coin. Those contaminants would not be there in that form unless the coin had been cleaned. This is the tell or the give-away of the cleaning, even with distilled water.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I am not saying that soaking a coin in distilled water is considered as harsh cleaning. And many would not label a coin treated that way as cleaned. But please, don&#039;t fool yourself into thinking that just because you can&#039;t tell that it was done - that nobody else can either. Those with the appropriate knowledge and experience can.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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