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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1916625, member: 112&quot;]Eddie - at that link you can&#039;t see this ?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://books.google.com/books?id=-bEsAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PR9&amp;img=1&amp;pgis=1&amp;dq=cleaning+coins&amp;sig=ACfU3U3sr6_VD_bVNvBY70STJ0J6FSegsA&amp;edge=0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the table of contents for the book. What it tells you is how to use lacquer, paraffin, kerosene, vasline - to supposedly &quot;protect your coins&quot;. And then the next line would be where you find directions on how to restore the design on coins with wear.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now does any of that sound like what is considered to be acceptable practice today ? And that&#039;s from a book published in 1976.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then you see what you&#039;re talking about being the basic rule. Then right below that you see this - </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://books.google.com/books?id=-bEsAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA59&amp;img=1&amp;pgis=1&amp;dq=cleaning+coins&amp;sig=ACfU3U38LF0MM_H5FKCiYkb7pkNMzhkGYg&amp;edge=0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Those are the beginning of directions for how to clean and preserve coins. Again, anathema to what you would be told today. None of that leads to believe what I&#039;m saying ??</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn&#039;t find it right off, but someplace on this forum you&#039;ll find an excerpt from a book written by Ken Bressett himself (I think it was written in the &#039;60s) where he gives you directions on how to mix a paste with baking soda and then using that and a soft brush to clean coins. Back then, that was the accepted practice. </p><p><br /></p><p>I started collecting coins in 1960, and that is the kind of things that you found in the books - all the time. Luckily my grandfather told me to ignore the books and not do as they suggested.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now eventually I&#039;ll find a couple more books from back then and show you that they flat out tell you how to clean coins and recommend that you do it. And every method they list is considered harsh cleaning today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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