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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Meat man, post: 25092969, member: 135271&quot;]It seems a number of new ancient collectors like to start out buying coins to clean. In my opinion, this is most often a mistake.</p><p><br /></p><p>First of all, most &#039;uncleaned&#039; coins are pretty near worthless anyway - either worn slugs or unidentifiable bits of corroded metal. And on top of that, 99% are common Constantinian AE&#039;s which you can buy in EF condition for $30-40. Finding anything of real value will happen about as often as you finding a 1909-S VDB penny in change.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, cleaning coins properly is an art that takes a lot of skill, patience, and natural aptitude. Of course, practice makes perfect and you have to start somewhere - but it&#039;s not the sort of thing most people can just jump into and be good at it. It is very easy to ruin a coin! Just knowing when and where to stop and start during the process takes a lot of know-how and experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, if gaining that skill and experience is important to you, then by all means practice! Nothing wrong with that. But if you are more interested in collecting coins themselves, I would strongly recommend buying cleaned coins from a dealer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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