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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2296630, member: 46237&quot;]While you don&#039;t want to &quot;clean&quot; a coin, you may want to conserve it. But conservation is about removing contaminants from the coin as well as neutralizing and stabilizing corrosion, especially before TPG submission or other long-term storage. While conservation is not about improving the appearance of a coin, sometimes the appearance of a coin is improved by conservation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having said that, sometimes coins are just dirty beyond what is reasonable to leave on the coin for originality. In other words, there are beautiful crusty original coins, and then there are coins that <i>just have dirt on them</i>. Knowing the difference is important. It&#039;s rare, but sometimes you see slabbed coins that are slabbed with dirt that obscures the coin, where soaking the dirt off would not be detrimental.</p><p><br /></p><p>This, for example, should have been soaked before slabbing. It&#039;s only going to harm the coin by leaving an encrustation like that on there, especially if it flakes off and starts bouncing around in the slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]461136[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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