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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 5386093, member: 112"]The 4 companies that pretty much everybody knows about are the TPGs - ANACS, ICG, NGC, PCGS. They will all clean your coins for you - for a price, and in some cases even do it for free. They have even been known to do it in some cases without asking you (the owner) if you wanted it done. </p><p><br /></p><p>Beyond that, most dealers know how to do it and will do it for you for a price, or for free in some cases. And then there are a multitude of private individuals who can do it, and do, when asked. But to my knowledge none have a "company" per se. So there is no way to compile a directory of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for "standards", there are none, at least none that are published. The TPGs won't tell you how they do things claiming their methods are proprietary and because doing so would, shall we say, not be conducive to business.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, what works and what doesn't work is widely known. In other words, more people than you can count know how to safely clean coins. And the 4 basic methods of doing so, and directions for doing so, have been posted on this forum countless times. Many of those times by me. They are - </p><p><br /></p><p>1 - distilled water</p><p>2 - acetone</p><p>3 - xylene</p><p>4 - coin dip</p><p><br /></p><p>That right there, that's really all there is to know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 5386093, member: 112"]The 4 companies that pretty much everybody knows about are the TPGs - ANACS, ICG, NGC, PCGS. They will all clean your coins for you - for a price, and in some cases even do it for free. They have even been known to do it in some cases without asking you (the owner) if you wanted it done. Beyond that, most dealers know how to do it and will do it for you for a price, or for free in some cases. And then there are a multitude of private individuals who can do it, and do, when asked. But to my knowledge none have a "company" per se. So there is no way to compile a directory of them. As for "standards", there are none, at least none that are published. The TPGs won't tell you how they do things claiming their methods are proprietary and because doing so would, shall we say, not be conducive to business. That said, what works and what doesn't work is widely known. In other words, more people than you can count know how to safely clean coins. And the 4 basic methods of doing so, and directions for doing so, have been posted on this forum countless times. Many of those times by me. They are - 1 - distilled water 2 - acetone 3 - xylene 4 - coin dip That right there, that's really all there is to know.[/QUOTE]
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