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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 726048, member: 4552"]May sound funny by todays standards but when I was a kid, cleaning coins was common and actually necessary. If you collected coins and showed them to anyone, usually the first thing you would hear is "Those sure are dirty. Why don't you clean them up so they look nice?" And we did. Back then an antique was just something in a museum, not some item you found in change. Coins were supposed to look pretty in your Whitman Folder. Articles like those were seen but no one I knew ever purchased that stuff. Way to expensive for most. Every one I knew that collected coins would use either Lemon Juice, Vinegar but the most common was baking soda and water paste. Rubbing with that really cleaned coins but really didn't make them look new. For a newer look we used to go out to our Dad's car, open the battery and using a turkey baster, take out some of the Acid. When most coins were left in that stuff, they would come out looking like new. That practice was only as good as when your Dad did not see that. If he did, that would stop since you had a really sore rear to remember not to do it again. All sounds horrible but then back when I was a kid coins such as Standing Liberty Quarters were as common as a State Quarter today. Roosevelt Dimes were just coming out, Walking Liberty Halves were used all the time and even Indian Cents were still in change. We used to play games with all coins by throwing them on sidewalks to see who could get the closest to the lines between the slabs. Coins were for shooting at with your favorite BB gun, throwing across a river, throwing in wishing wells, drilling to make jewlery for some girl, placing on RR tracks and almost anything else possible to do with coins. And back then even old furniture was just something to break up and use in bon fires, not sell as antiques. And remember a car was only about $400 to $600 too.[/QUOTE]

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