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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dannic113, post: 1412881, member: 35203&quot;]I would never sanitize or clean or dip any coins that are proof or unc. or are rare in any grade even circ. Case in point SBA 1981 Proof Type 2 I&#039;m afraid to use MS70 or any other coin dips for fear of ruining in any possible way so the haze stays it&#039;s not doing any damage so why mess with it. </p><p>[ATTACH]171369.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>Circulated are another story using alcohol (as long as it&#039;s 91% or higher &quot;pure&quot; alcohol you can&#039;t really tell. It doesn&#039;t remove or damage patina and there is no mint luster. I would be more concerned with the blowing air and any now loose materials scratching the coin and that is what collectors look for and hate to see. Personally I wouldn&#039;t clean them for cleaning sake but dirt, and suface oils things like that its fine. I have actually found 91% and higher alcohol to be great at drying out early stage verdigris on circulated copper coins. It just flakes away. Keys there being circulated and early stage where it&#039;s surface only maybe some very light microscopic pitting. That however goes back to Hunt1&#039;s comment on doing it to conserve a coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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