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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 399692, member: 6370&quot;]Understood...what you did isn&#039;t that bad...especially if it had green corrosion forming. I would just say that instead of hot water just use distilled with no heat. Don&#039;t rub a coins surface if you can help it but instead let the water work on it for a bit in a distilled water soak and maybe a dab or a slight rub with a very soft cloth. </p><p>If you have corrosion, there are other ways to remove it than to rub the surface but I doubt you did any real damage to it...I don&#039;t like filthy coins either and there are ways to handle corrosion and dirt where you wont have to rub the surface much. With a soft cotton cloth, you probably didn&#039;t hurt it in any way unless you look at it under high magnification....and even then if you didn&#039;t rub it very hard of for long you probably didn&#039;t harm it much if at all.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you have a filthy coin that has been regularly handled and circulated, a little light cleaning isn&#039;t going to do any more harm to it then circulation and corrosion already did to it. In fact you may SAVE or PRESERVE any numismatic value a coin might still have by proper cleaning.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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