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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 4145536, member: 112&quot;]Throughout this thread and others similar to it over the years I&#039;ve tried to make something clear, but it seems that it just never sinks in. Granted, this is my opinion, and others are certainly entitled to have their own opinions, but mine is that MS70 <b>should only be used</b> on modern Proof coins with haze, and high grade modern business strikes that have no toning and that one is submitting for grading. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now P &amp; G, I can only assume you&#039;re asking these questions because you&#039;re wondering if MS70 can somehow &quot;help&quot; that coin. My opinion, no, there isn&#039;t anything you can do to &quot;help&quot; that coin ! I wouldn&#039;t even recommend dipping it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Given that I&#039;ve said that much, and given that you asked the specific question you did ask about MS70, your next question might be something like - well, if it isn&#039;t gonna &quot;help&quot; it, can it hurt anything to try ? My answer, maybe, maybe not, but I wouldn&#039;t try. Why ? Because I think there&#039;s more going on with that coin than just toning - I think something was spilled or splattered on that coin in at least a couple of places. And whatever it was, it most likely at least contributed to the toning. </p><p><br /></p><p>The risk you face by using MS70 on this specific coin is that if I am right and something was spilled on it, then MS70 <u>might</u> take that off. And if it does, then the coin is gonna look downright weird,probably with lighter spots, and become obvious that something was removed from it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now this is just one example of why I say that MS70 should only be used in certain and limited cases as I described above, there are plenty of others. The issue is, if you don&#039;t at least have a pretty good idea of what&#039;s gonna happen - then you probably shouldn&#039;t do it ! With hazy modern Proofs or high grade modern business strikes - you pretty well know what&#039;s gonna happen if you use MS70 on them. But with anything else - you don&#039;t know ! You have no freaking idea what&#039;s gonna happen because you don&#039;t know what already has happened to the coin ! </p><p><br /></p><p>The original question in this thread is - does MS70 harm coins ? Well guess what, there&#039;s more than one way to &quot;harm&quot; a coin. No, MS70 is not going to remove any metal or toning from the coin - MS70 is not a coin dip. So it will not harm it in that way. But MS70 is a detergent, and it will take some things off a coin. But at the same time, it will other things behind. And if ya take some things off and leave some things behind you&#039;re liable to end up with a coin that looks like a freaking mess ! And if ya do that would say the coin has been harmed ? I sure as hell would. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the key - MS70 <b>should only be used</b> on modern Proof coins with haze, and high grade modern business strikes that have no toning and that one is submitting for grading. In all other cases - forget about it ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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