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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SeberHusky, post: 2320156, member: 72959&quot;]So...question being...if you&#039;re not supposed to clean them, then how would you add this to your collection? That would need a pretty big envelope and make an awful mess in your sitting room</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://thedirtisgoodtome.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/coinball1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I wash all my coins with soap and hot water before they go into cases and never had any issues. I know industrial cleaners and acid baths, yes. But coins are made of metal, not cardboard, soap and water brushing isn&#039;t going to hurt them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I read about 6 pages, and it seems like the reasoning behind it that keeps repeating in a loop is all about value. Washing modern day money drops the value (somehow?), but it&#039;s OK with Roman coins because washing them makes the value go up. If washing modern coins made the value go up, would it then be OK?</p><p><br /></p><p>Even on Antiques Roadshow, they tell you that furniture polish is OK to use on antique furniture, because it will build up a layer of wax over time that will help protect the wood, and keep dust from grinding in the surface when items are placed on it. But they do advise never to professionally clean or restore it to where it alters the color of the finish (sanding and re-varnishing), as that would bad.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect coins because I love to do it and look at and manipulate these tokens of history, not because I&#039;m collecting to make the headlines 20 years from now with a $500,000 coin collection and inspect every single coin with the Hubbell space telescope.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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