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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1951388, member: 112&quot;]OK, but may I ask why you think they should have different meanings ?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But it is a black and white situation and here&#039;s why.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you rinse a coin in distilled water what exactly do you do to that coin ? Do you clean it or conserve it ? If you rinse a coin in acetone do you clean it or conserve it ? If you dip a coin in a commercial coin dip do you clean it or conserve it ? And when I say you, I mean you personally.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if NCS rinses a coin in distilled water, or acetone, or some other proprietary mix of chemicals, or they dip the coin - do they clean it or conserve it ? </p><p><br /></p><p>You see, those are all of things there are that you can do to a coin to clean it or conserve it - and not harm the coin. There isn&#039;t anything else. So plain and simple, it doesn&#039;t matter &quot;who&quot; it is that does it because nothing is different in any way. The water, the acetone, the chemical mix, washes or rinses away some foreign material, or even the toning, from the surface of the coin without harming the surface of the coin. And if you are both doing the exact same things then there can be no difference between what you, or they, are doing.</p><p><br /></p><p>NCS claims they conserve coins, regardless of whatever method they use. And most people have no problem with that claim. So if you are doing the same things they are doing, use the same methods, then you must be conserving the coin too.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what actually are you doing ? Plain and simple you, or they, are cleaning the coin. I mean what else could you possibly call the action of removing dirt and grime, some kind of foreign material, or even potentially harmful toning, from a coin ? That action is a cleaning of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two words are synonyms, they don&#039;t have different meanings because they can&#039;t have different meanings because you are doing the same thing when you do either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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