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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lawdogct, post: 56629, member: 1476&quot;]Soaking a dug coin in water is a perfectly acceptable means of removing dirt/debris.&nbsp; Taking care NOT to rub, is solid advice too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I&#039;d like for someone to look at ANY coin I provide and have them tell me wheter or not its ever come in contact with water.&nbsp; Can&#039;t be done.&nbsp; And if THAT counts as cleaned, so be it.&nbsp; Its a technically correct statement.&nbsp; But you might as well say that EVERY coin is damaged?&nbsp; Why? simply because they, or someone else, breathed on it or near it.&nbsp; Last I knew, the US Mint doesn&#039;t produce coins in a sterile contaminent safe room immediately sealing each coin in a sterilized contaminent free airtight cointainer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said before, sweet find.&nbsp; Its finds like this that keep us detectorist going <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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