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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 98671, member: 669&quot;]<img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/schilder/142.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> to CoinTalk Thira.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m very sorry to hear of your hurricane loss, of which the coin damage is probably only a small part. <img src="http://bestsmileys.com/sad/9.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>If I were in your boat, I would make a list of the coins and note the type of contamination.&nbsp; Then I would send the list to <a href="http://www.ncscoin.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ncscoin.com/" rel="nofollow">&gt;&gt;NCS&lt;&lt;</a>, which is in the business of professionally restoring coins, and ask them which ones are worth the expense of conserving, and how much it would be.&nbsp; (If you had flood insurance and haven&#039;t finalized your claim, I believe the conservation costs would be covered damage.) </p><p><br /></p><p>The strong consensus of modern collectors is that coins should not be cleaned under most circumstances.&nbsp; One of the special circumstances that changes that thought is contamination that can cause corrosion or other physical damage to the coin.&nbsp; Even then, &quot;cleaning&quot; is not a do-it yourself task.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, conservation is not cheap, and is probably not cost effective for coins worth less than some cutoff point that each collector must set for him/herself.&nbsp; I&#039;m afraid that the coins with significant damage valued below your own cutoff value are just so much scrap metal. <img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/traurig/d010.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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