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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmbdii, post: 4588, member: 655&quot;]In the old days, people would hang a sliver dollar in a pitcher of milk when it was going to be out unrefrigerated for a few hours such as at a family cookout or picnic.&nbsp; Silver kills germs and will keep a pitcher of milk from going sour for several hours.&nbsp; It&#039;s why silver was used for tableware, too.&nbsp; One side benefit of silver coins is that they won&#039;t spread germs.&nbsp; You can still buy sterling silver baby rattles which are the safest things for babies to have when they&#039;re still trying everything in their mouths or when they&#039;re teething because germs can&#039;t live on silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Distilled water doesn&#039;t clean coins at all unless they have something water soluble on them like sugar.&nbsp; That was a joke.&nbsp; You shouldn&#039;t dip coins at all unless you need to get PVC residue off.&nbsp; Dipping ruins a coin&#039;s toning, which is the patina that comes from exposure to&nbsp; different materials used for storing coins as well as from exposure to naturally occurring gases in the air.&nbsp; Therefore, dipping coins in distilled water won&#039;t hurt the coin&#039;s toning but almost everything else you could dip them in will ruin the toning or mint luster.&nbsp; Acetone will remove PVC scuzz without affecting the coin&#039;s mint luster or toning.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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