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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2690401, member: 112&quot;]If you were to wash a coin with distilled water, how that can be called anything but cleaning ? If you go wash your hands in water, are you conserving your hands ? If you wash your dishes in water are you conserving your dishes ? No,of course not. You are cleaning your hands and your dishes. And it is no different with coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The terms conserve or conservation are nothing but euphemisms for cleaning. And those euphemisms are used because there are too many people out there who don&#039;t understand that <u>cleaning</u> a coin IS NOT a bad thing. It is <u>harshly cleaning</u> a coin that is a bad thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Using distilled water, acetone, xylene - those are all cleaning. And they are all harmless to a coin. Even dipping a coin in a commercial coin dip is cleaning a coin, and if done correctly it is, for all practical purposes, also harmless to a coin and perfectly acceptable in the numismatic community.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point I&#039;m trying to make is that you can use the euphemisms if you wish but it doesn&#039;t change what you are actually doing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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