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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WhipperSnapper 88, post: 2821729, member: 89321&quot;]Hey guys. I&#039;m new here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not trying to start a thread that asks or debates whether you should clean coins. I already know the answer to that is a resounding NO!, and i would never attempt to clean any coin that i thought had any value.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, i did clean some coins the other day ( shudder ) and i imediately regreted it. The coins i cleaned were pennies. I recently completed a 1975 - 2013 penny folder, and I figured that i&#039;ll be long dead by the time this penny set would be worth anything close to say, what a completed Indian Head penny set might be worth today, if ever. Given that, i thought, &quot;these pennies sure would look nice all clean and shiny in the folder, and they&#039;re never going to be worth anything monetarily anyway, so what the heck&quot;... And so, i pulled a cheap tube of toothpaste from the cabinet and went to work. Immediately i realized that i had just wiped away the character and individuality of every coin in that folder, but thats about all i lost by cleaning them, right? It&#039;s not like a 1975 - 2013 coin set is going to be worth much anyway, right? Or was this a bigger mistake than i think? Will my great great great gteat grandchildren get boned 200 years from now because their grandfather made the mistake of cleaning his modern, circulated, common coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S.</p><p><br /></p><p>When you consider that a circulated coin that has spent the better part of its existence banging and clanking around in peoples pockets and cash registers, being scratched and marred by being dropped and slid across tables and counters, collecting oils from peoples fingers and god only knows what other gunk, i fail to see why its potential future value would be harmed by the microscopic scratches that an abrasive cleaning would leave, but thats just me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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