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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2465552, member: 112&quot;]By all means experiment on junk coins for a good deal can be learned from doing so. Just realize and understand a few things for if you are going to do it you may as well do it right. First, you don&#039;t ever want to use anything to rub or brush or in any other way touch the surface of the coins. And anything does mean anything at all, there is no cloth and no brush, or anything else that has ever been made that is what people think of as being soft enough. There is no such thing as &quot;soft enough&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next are the liquids you use and the order in which you use them - distilled water, acetone, xylene, and coin dip. And there is a reason for using them in that order, that reason is that each of those liquids will remove things from the coin that the others will not. In other words some things distilled water will remove that acetone won&#039;t. And some things that acetone will remove but distilled water won&#039;t. Same goes for acetone and xylene, and lastly coin dip. You start with the weakest liquid, the water, and work your way up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, distilled water, acetone, and xylene - will not remove toning - period. You may &quot;think&quot; that the coloration on a coin is toning but if any of those things remove it - I can guarantee you it wasn&#039;t toning. Of the four coin dip is the only liquid that will remove toning from a coin - ever.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also realize that there are several different kinds of coin dip, all of them different, some of them stronger or even much stronger than the others. And each one requires slightly different methods for its proper use. Each one is capable of harming the coin if used incorrectly. And each one can also be used without harming the coin if it is used correctly.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, that does not mean that any and all coins can be properly cleaned, helped, restored, improved, conserved, - pick your word of choice. Some coins will already have been damaged beyond all help before you ever even touch them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Realize and understand all of these things - and experiment away.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit - I forgot to add one last thing. After you perform your experiments you need to be careful about the conclusions you draw as a result of them. I say this because each and every coin is unique, truly unique. So the things you do to them may or may not always have the same results. What you do to one coin may not work at all on another, even though they looked exactly the same to you.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, we, the people doing the experiments, we are the weak point, we are the wild card. What we think we see isn&#039;t always what is there. Nor do our own personal experiences mean that everyone else will have the same experiences that we do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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