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Message:: [QUOTE="AlexN2coins2004, post: 2740418, member: 19049"]Hi all it's been a very VERY long time since I've posted on here. I've been asked by my Dad to clean up some of his coins he's bought and by clean I don't mean anything harsh really. No pastes or scrubs or whatever "dipping" is which sounds harsh to me or anything over board. I just want to do what is good "conservation" for the coins as I might be the one to end up with them anyways but also do a good job for Dad to see what gems he's been able to pick up in his coin hunting. I've heard in the past something about soaking coins in Acetone for a while then something bout rinsing in "De-ionized water" I've got no real clue about that or how to make it or if I could just use distilled water from the store instead. The Coins I'm working on are some Morgan Silver Dollars, Buffalo Nickels, and miscellaneous 90% silver dimes and quarters. It's stuff he's picked up at local estate auctions that have crud and build up. Some are actually in fairly great MS condition like they were just made and now have some years of piled up gunk! I know unlike in the 1800's or later and before they used to just polish coins with a rag is a BIG NO-NO! lol. I know I could just google it but to be honest I'd rather come in here and get verified information on how to do it all instead of just blindly trusting some googled info to some information that might just be the worse thing to do in "conservation" of said coins.[/QUOTE]