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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;buddy16cat, post: 1423805, member: 37356&quot;]<b>I am not talking about tone or tarnish.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I am talking about the grit and dirt you get on your hands while searching coins, not the patina.&nbsp; What confuses me is that I found a penny from 1910 in circulation.&nbsp; This penny has been handed person to person, dropped, and clanged together with other coins in someone&#039;s pocket.&nbsp; It may have possibly went through laundry or was in someone&#039;s pocket while they were swimming in a chlorinated pool or the ocean which would constitute &quot;cleaning&quot;.&nbsp; After all this I am going to damage it by dipping it in some alcohol and distilled water?&nbsp; The choice to wash dirty coins is not an easy one but sometimes necessary.&nbsp; I can feel the dirt and grit on wheat cents I have found while coin roll hunting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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