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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1372644, member: 112&quot;]It doesn&#039;t matter what you call it. The only thing that matters is the method used.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Clary - you can read books, magazine articles, posts made on coin forums, blogs, You Tube videos, and every other form of communication that you can imagine. And you can find all sorts of methods and different ways to clean coins discussed there. They will discuss using everything from taco sauce, to lemon juice, to every household cleaner under the sun. And in almost every case you will also read - this works great !</p><p><br /></p><p>But just because you can find all of this stuff, that <u>does not</u> mean that you should ever do any of it !</p><p><br /></p><p>There are 3 things that are safe to use on coins to clean them. (Use the word conserve if that makes you happy, it means exactly the same thing). They are - </p><p><br /></p><p>1 - distilled water</p><p>2 - acetone*</p><p>3 - xylene</p><p><br /></p><p>* - acetone may cause copper coins to turn weird colors</p><p><br /></p><p>Each of these 3 things have specific uses and should only be used in specific cases, depending on the coin and what you are trying to clean off the coin. And you must follow proper procedure when using them or you will not be happy with the results and may even harm the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are also other things that can be used like coin dips. But again, they must only be used in certain cases. And a coin dip can and will ruin a coin if it is not used correctly because coin dips contain acid. But if a coin dip is used correctly it will not harm the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anything else you read, anywhere, written by anybody - forget it. Put it right out of your mind and never do it. For that matter don&#039;t ever try any of the things I have mentioned until you have done lots of experiments and practiced with them on coins that do not matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been hundreds, maybe thousands, of threads on this forum alone discussing the subject of cleaning coins. Search for them, read them. You&#039;ll learn a lot about what to do and what not to do. And that&#039;s where you need to start. There is no book. But it would take a book just to fully explain what I have said here.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if you have questions about a specific coin, then post pics of that coin and we&#039;ll discuss what to do - for that 1 coin ! Each coin is different and no single method will work on every coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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