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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bacchus, post: 42363, member: 759&quot;]Another tip is <b>don’t clean the coins</b>; don’t even wipe them.&nbsp; Washing them might make them look shiny to the average guy in the street, but an experienced coin collector will probably offer you much less if they’ve been cleaned.&nbsp; The reason is that almost any cleaning will degrade the metal one way or another (for example, chemicals removing the luster (not the same thing as shine) or a cloth putting tiny scratches onto the coin that are obvious with a magnifying glass).&nbsp; The end result is that coins that are cleaned could be only worth a fraction of what they were when not cleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p>Going a step further, handle them with gloves or by their rims.&nbsp; The oils in fingerprints will also devalue the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>So don’t clean them until you’ve talked to experts, and maybe not even then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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