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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 633316, member: 112&quot;]You usually don&#039;t want to do that either. </p><p><br /></p><p>Think of it this way Bill - coins are best left alone. That means don&#039;t rub them with your fingers, a cloth or anything else - no matter how soft you think it is. Don&#039;t submerse them in cleaning solutions, chemicals or anything - except maybe distilled water. Don&#039;t even think about using electrolysis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t do ANYTHING to them, unless you know what you are doing BEFORE you do it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah I know, how do you find out what you are doing unless you do it first. Well ya don&#039;t. So if you want to learn, fine, experiment. But only experiment on say modern coins that you would otherwise just spend as change. That way you are not out anything if you screw up the coin. For no matter how badly you screw it up, you can still spend it.</p><p><br /></p><p>And don&#039;t fool yourself into thinking that just because the coin looks better to you when you are finished - that others will think it looks better too. They won&#039;t. To them it will have become pocket change to only be used for spending at face value. There are exceptions of course, but only with rarities, which you are not likely to find anyway, but ya never know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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