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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1950929, member: 26302&quot;]Doug is right in that most people use the term conserving and proper cleaning interchangably. I never have though, since to me I will do things to a coin if its in danger of being destroyed I would never do if its only to improve the appearance. The matte black toning is the major example in my mind, bronze disease being the other. I will stop at literally nothing to remove this from a coin, because stopping short would basically mean I am condemning that coin to &quot;death&quot;. So, maybe its just me, but conserving can mean a slightly different thing than proper cleaning, but most of the time the word conserving is used as a cheap euphemism for proper cleaning, to make the owner of the coin feel better about themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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