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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 998006, member: 19409&quot;]It depends largely on what it is that you&#039;re cleaning.&nbsp; Every ancient coin needs some level of cleaning at some point, as they are pulling form the ground covered in dirt, but there&#039;s definitely a point of overcleaning, where you remove the patina and leave something shiny.&nbsp; You don&#039;t want to go that far.&nbsp; Anyway, if you&#039;re buying coins listed as &quot;uncleaned&quot;, then you almost always want to clean then (I&#039;ve managed to get a couple that had rather nice desert patinas that I didn&#039;t want to touch), but you usually don&#039;t want to clean coins not listed as that unless you know what you&#039;re doing, since they&#039;re usually already cleaned to a decent level.&nbsp; If you have some coins that you&#039;re curious about, post some pictures, and we can tell you whether it would make sense to try to clean them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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