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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2664948, member: 82549&quot;]True, but for prolonged soaks, most serious uncleaned coin cleaners, a.k.a., bottom feeders, use distilled water. The are a couple of reasons for this, but the main reason is that most US tap water has been chlorinated. Most bottom feeders live in mortal dread of bronze disease; dread that is--like a typical New Yorker&#039;s fear of bedbugs--possibly out of proportion to its actual likelihood, but nonetheless exasperated by the thought of exposing an ancient coin to even a whiff of chlorine. Nasty stuff, that chlorine. Since a gallon of distilled water usually costs less that $2 and can last for months, I don&#039;t think it&#039;s a question of being anal. I think it&#039;s more like a neurosis or mild paranoia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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