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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GSDykes, post: 2170956, member: 73321&quot;]a reply to,</p><p>Paddyman98:</p><p>Lets see your &quot;proper&quot; pics. Reminds me of various protocols which are not always best. Like the Army Officer who always, I mean always went &quot;by the book&quot;, until he was shot. I apologize if I violated your sensitive tastes. I know the proper sequence, but I am also a bit lazy at my age. I will be more careful.</p><p><br /></p><p>a reply to,</p><p>stewart dandis:</p><p>Cute stewart, real cute.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>a reply to,</p><p>d.t.menace</p><p>Not an oxymoron. Take a trip to a large museum, or the Smithsonian. There you will see hundreds of preserved, cleaned, coins. Why save dirty dingy coins for posterity?? Their cleaned results are &quot;cleaned gems&quot;. Are yours?</p><p><br /></p><p>The science of properly preserving artifacts of history (be it manuscripts, stamps, coins, paintings et al) is a dignified and valid science. As Q. David Bowers lamented (as I posted earlier) too many numismatists are plagued with the stigma of not touching a spotted, filthy dirty dingy old coin. Rubbish, use your head and the proper tools to clean -- in a multitude of ways -- coins which need it. Who wants to give their grandson/daughters green verdigris covered Indian Head cents?? Or how about black Morgan dollars?? I thought I was asking adults to post some of their cleaning attempts, I was not asking for childish fears. It is time to treat your collection properly (MY opinion). If I clean some of MY coins, it is a freedom I earned, in blood.</p><p>GSDykes[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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