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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 257747, member: 4552&quot;]Foir one thing in most cases they can tell. For the few instances where they miss a cleaning or dipping, it is not worth the chances in valuable coinage. </p><p>For another thing regardless of what anyone says, if you have a Silver coin with Oxydation on it and you remove the Oxydation, you will remove some of the metal. You can NOT replace the Silver in the same places where it has been removed. Some acutally think they can reverse the process. NO you can&#039;t. And a good grading service will see that.</p><p>The most important thing to remember is when people tell you to do something with something that belongs to you and they were wrong, guessing, repeating&nbsp; something they thought was true, it&#039;s your item that suffers. The only thing they would say is &quot;Oh well, it worked for me&quot; or &quot;Ooopps. Sorry&quot;. </p><p>To preserve a coin for the future by cleaning or dipping is like saying spray the Mona Lisa painting with Laquer to preserve it. Oh that would ruin it? Oh well it&#039;s not mine so big deal. </p><p>REMEMBER. If the majority of professionals, dealers, collectors, museum people, Antique Roadshow, coin show people and on and on an on say DO NOT CLEAN OR DIP COINS, maybe they know something. </p><p>If the coins are yours, only you are responsible for them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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