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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2915344, member: 112&quot;]For what it&#039;s worth, I can&#039;t see anything that makes me thing any of those 3 coins have been harshly cleaned. That does not mean they have not been, it just means that based on the pics provided - I can&#039;t see it if they have been.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, for 2 of them. The &#039;78 is fine where it is because it is already in a hard plastic case.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No. I say that because there is a very short list of stuff that acetone will remove from coins - PVC residue, tape residue, some kinds of glue, fresh (and only fresh) fingerprints, and some kinds of paint. Other than to remove those things, rinsing a coin in acetone is just a waste of time because acetone will have no effect - it will not remove it from the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now granted, using the acetone isn&#039;t going to hurt anything if you do use it, but it isn&#039;t going to help anything either. So why bother doing it ? As I said it&#039;s a waste of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing you really have to remember Hypr277 is that while some coins, and I stress some coins, can be helped or improved by using proper cleaning techniques, the majority of them cannot be helped or improved. And even for those that can be helped you still have to use the right materials and do it the right way. </p><p><br /></p><p>And while the actual doing of it, the proper cleaning, is the easy part, knowing which coins you should even attempt to clean is the hard part. That is the part that takes quite a few years of experience to learn. </p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line, in most cases you are usually better off to just leave the coins alone, leave them as is. What I have just explained in this post, that is the reason, or one of them anyway, why the advice most often given is to - not clean your coins. The other reason is because it is all to easy to damage your coins by attempting to clean them when you do not know what you are doing - when you do not have the necessary experience to do so in other words.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of that said, I realize you want to learn, and that is a good thing. But the best way to learn is to experiment with coins that do not matter - experiment with pocket change - not the coins in your collection. Also, understand that learning what you need to know takes a while. Few are going to learn in a matter of months or even years which coins are good candidates for cleaning and which ones are not, as well as what to use to clean them with. So take the time, do not be in a rush, to experiment and to learn what works, and what doesn&#039;t and when.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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