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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 569874, member: 4381&quot;]You don&#039;t offend me at all and I didn&#039;t call you a fool.&nbsp; Whenever this thread comes up I will act responsibly to the health and welfare of the hobby, that is I will urge you loudly and bluntly not to clean coins.&nbsp; The example of a 1700 coin is even more urgent.&nbsp; Those coins need professional care.&nbsp; If someone who owns these coins are not up to the task of such professional care, weather that be storage, conservation, and general care, then you are foolishly destroying important historical and cultural artifacts which the entire public has an interest in preserving both for the current and future generations.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The overwhelming result of cleaning coins is to destroy the coins.&nbsp; Proper conservation is a fine art and trade, for all artifacts and pieces of art.&nbsp; You must think of your coins as being entrusted to you and not just private property.&nbsp; When you do that two things will happen.&nbsp; First, you&#039;ll become a better collector, and secondly, collecting will be more interesting to you and you will get more satisfaction out of it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As I posted earlier, YES.&nbsp; In fact, if the coins are rare enough, it rises to the level or moral obligation to try to conserve those damaged coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I myself have asked from time to time if it was worth trying to clean a specific coin, specifically a nice Franklin and a Merc.&nbsp; Both times I did so without any grandiose statements about how I have some imperative to clean the coins and both times after talking about possible solutions to the problem I opted not to clean either after throughly examining repeated results to amature coin clean.&nbsp; I also posted photographs of the coins and discussed in detail possible solutions.&nbsp; I might eventually try a water pick on the Merc, as GD suggested in order to attempt to remove some foreign matter on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This was one of those threads:</p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t43105/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t43105/">http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t43105/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Never the less, the rule is bluntly, don&#039;t clean your coins.&nbsp; Understand the limits of your knowledge and skills base.&nbsp; Remain within your limits.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have considered this question carefully and after a few years of thinking about this, I&#039;ve come to the conclusion that the best chance of getting someone to not make a potentially huge mistake is to be frank and blunt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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