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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 546998, member: 17753&quot;]<b>From coins.about.com on cleaning</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I know next to nothing about cleaning, but just read an interesting article <a href="http://coins.about.com/od/caringforcoins/f/shiny_coins.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.about.com/od/caringforcoins/f/shiny_coins.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>.&nbsp; What struck me was something I&#039;d never heard about before:</p><p><br /></p><p>In the article was the following (she&#039;s talking about how coins are made, and what &quot;mint luster&quot; is, and so forth)</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I&#039;ll be the first to say that I never heard of this cartwheel effect (and as soon as I get home from work, I&#039;ll find some shiny coins to check this out myself).</p><p><br /></p><p>But her main point was this: that cleaning a coin takes away some of the surface, and will destroy the cartwheel effect, and anybody experienced would be able to see it, and it will devalue the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note: I am not asserting the above as fact.&nbsp; I am bringing this up to get your collective opinion on this (because I&#039;m a semi-newbie, and I never heard of this before)</p><p><br /></p><p>Thoughts anyone?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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