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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bocon007, post: 2781391, member: 77623&quot;]Greetings all!</p><p><br /></p><p>First, I want to thank everyone for their contributions to this website. I started collecting coins about three years ago, and I have learned a great deal from everyone&#039;s willingness to share. I have told people I know that coin collecting is admittedly a strange hobby because one largely enjoys this hobby alone within the confines of their own home. Well, websites like this make it a lot less solitary adventure. For that, I am truly thankful.</p><p><br /></p><p>My collection now spans about 150 coins. I am an avid collector of British Honduras from 1937 to 1973. I like B. Honduras because it&#039;s one of the overlooked British colonies that happens to have been in the Western Hemisphere, relatively close to home. I also like the series because finding gems within this date range can be downright beguiling. Well worn examples are plentiful, problem free AU coins are scarce for certain denominations, attractive uncirculated pieces can be a real challenge to track down, but true gems are few and far between. But I do enjoy the challenge.</p><p><br /></p><p>The time has come for me to streamline my collection by selling or trading some of my duplicates and by preserving and committing to long term storage my keepers. Here are my questions:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. We all know that an acetone bath is commonly used to cleans coins of unwanted contaminates before long term storage. Here&#039;s what I don&#039;t know . . . Does acetone work equally well for all coin compositions: bronze, silver, copper-nickel, nickel-brass, among others. Is acetone equally harmless to all metal compositions, or are there some things I should know?</p><p><br /></p><p>2. If acetone is not the best choice for some metal compositions, then what preservation method would you recommend? Let&#039;s all assume the objective is to cleans coins of unwanted contaminates for long term storage, not to &quot;clean&quot; or to make a coin shinier or more &quot;attractive.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope everyone is well. The summer here in Georgia has been uncommonly mild and uncommonly wet. I hope fair weather finds you wherever you are.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks in advance.</p><p><br /></p><p>-B[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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