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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;10gary22, post: 1434671, member: 23626&quot;]Of course, not all coins qualify for cleaning. I mean there are a few keys I won&#039;t clean. Maybe after I upgrade I might try it. But there are a ton of coins that need it. I prefer &quot;cooking&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>I learned by experimenting that the water, baking soda, salt solution which when heated transfers the suflates of silver to aluminum can do wonders on silver coins. Since it&#039;s an electolysis, there&#039;s no etching, just the reversal of the oxidation process. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve had some decent luck restoring the luster of some BUs that were improperly stored in paper albums.</p><p><br /></p><p>A good friend who is one of the better known cent variety collectors uses a similiar method to cook copper before he searches through them. He has put together a set of tools he uses specifically for that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Face it, unless you are talking really high grade stuff, there&#039;s not a heck of a lot to lose by trying to restore some coins. I figure if there isn&#039;t much to lose, why not ? I doubt you gain much of course, but sometimes a cleaning can reveal a detail you couldn;t see before. And when a single &quot;error or variety&quot; can be worth more than the rest of the set combined, and you don&#039;t wanna miss that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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