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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1199542, member: 15929&quot;]Absoultely.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Distilled water has no minerals or calcium in it and as such will not spot your coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As a parent, one of my childrens science project was to demonstrate that distilled water does not conduct electricity. I was surprised to find out that its true. Water is a terrible conductor but add a bunch of minerals (which are not present in distilled water) and it&#039;s just like wire.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When rinsing coins I always follow with a bath of alcohol as the alcohol will evaporate more quickly off the coins surface during the &quot;pat dry&quot; operation. I also make a point of rolling the reeded edges across the paper to try and eliminate any moisture left between the reeding.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Rubbing Silver and Copper Proofs is a no no but copper nickel clad proof coins are much more forgiving of any little &quot;handling errors&quot; in the drying process.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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