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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Maxfli, post: 3628146, member: 69089&quot;]No it&#039;s not.&nbsp; It&#039;s merely a matter of semantics.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I had advocated for <u>conserving</u> coins by using water, acetone or xylene to remove foreign matter, would that make a difference to you?&nbsp; It shouldn&#039;t, because removing, or <u>cleaning off</u>, foreign matter can be a part of the conservation process, and one that has no effect on the coin itself because those materials don&#039;t interact with the metal in the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>And while there are many aspects of the conservation process that are beyond the skills of amateurs like us, soaking a coin in water, acetone or xylene are not among them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look, you&#039;re free to believe whatever you want. You can believe the earth is flat. You can believe George Washington chopped down a cherry tree. I don&#039;t care.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I do care that new and less experienced collectors know that if they buy a coin that has foreign matter accumulated in the devices, it may be in the best long-term interest of the coin for that stuff to come off of there. And they deserve to know that there&#039;s an easy way to do it that&#039;s safe and will have no effect whatsoever upon the coin itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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