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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 543323, member: 112&quot;]Tom you apparently still have a few things to learn. First and foremost - probably 99% of the people misuse the term &quot;clean&quot; when talking about coins. In this hobby, terminology is everything. They have a lot of different words because it is necessary to have them so that others can correctly understand you when you discuss something. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now to most folks, it wouldn&#039;t matter if you used soap &amp; water, a brillo pad, acetone or xylene, coin dip, lemon juice, vinegar, olive oil, hot sauce or battery acid to &quot;clean&quot; your coins - every single one of them is cleaning. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well the truth of the matter is that is just not true. Dipping a coin is not the same as cleaning it. Yes, technically it is, but as I said we have different terms to convey different meanings. Now all of those things I mentioned above is harmful to coins - every single one. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, if used properly, a coin can be dipped so that the foremost expert in the world could not tell the coin had been dipped, except by using deductive reasoning. In other words, it does no harm to the coin if done properly. But if done improperly, it can do great harm to coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Same kind of thing for acetone. Most will tell you it will not harm a coin. Well, it will, unless you use it properly. Same for xylene.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the rest, there is no proper way to use them, they will harm your coins period. Pretty much the same can be said of any other substance known to man. You name it, at some point in time somebody somewhere has used it to try and clean a coin. And they screwed &#039;em up, every single time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah they will tell you, it didn&#039;t hurt my coins - they look great ! There&#039;s a reason for that, because they lack experience they cannot see the damage they did. Trained eyes can see it at a glance. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now everything I&#039;ve said in this post I&#039;ve posted hundred times already - if not more. I have explained it to death. Yes, coins can be &quot;cleaned&quot;. But is always recommended that you do not attempt to do so unless and until you have the necessary experience. Otherwise you <b>ARE</b> going to screw up your coins. There is no maybe about it - that is an absolute fact. So it is usually just a lot easier to tell people - DO NOT CLEAN YOUR COINS - than it is to type all this out every single time somebody ask the question. And over the past 7 or 8 years <b>I have</b> typed all this out well over 100 times - it gets old after a while. So excuse me for not wanting to do it again. Nevertheless, here it is, one more time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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