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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 913237, member: 112&quot;]Normally the entire design on the coin is wiped out when it is squished and new design is stamped on the squished coin. So any cleaning would hardly matter as all traces of it would be destroyed when the coin is squished and re-minted.</p><p><br /></p><p>But it&#039;s not collectors of exonumia, we are just talking about collectors of elongated coins here. There are many forms of exonumia besides elongated coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>But consider this, it you took a chocolate toned cent and squished it, new copper is going to be exposed. Thus what you would end up with is an elongated coin with swirling colors of bright copper and that chocolate toned copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why they clean them first, so the end product is at least all the same color - bright copper. Then it can tone naturally afterwards.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if nothing else, your post sure illustrates all, or most, of the things that coin collector should not do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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