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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3228327, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;ve written about it so many times I can&#039;t recall for sure if I mention a few points in the various posts on the subject. But when it comes to properly cleaning coins the hard part is identifying what you need to do in order for it to be effective. This knowledge only comes with experience, nobody can teach it to you, nobody can tell you with words how to identify this or that - you simply have to learn it yourself. But what&#039;s been suggested in this thread is how you do that. When ya don&#039;t know, start at the top and work your way down the list.</p><p><br /></p><p>And also remember that sometimes a little agitation can help when things don&#039;t or won&#039;t come off with just soaking. Soak the coins for a while, but after a few hours pick &#039;em up by the edges and swish them around some. Then soak them some more, and then maybe swish them around some more. The agitation will help loosen and remove top layers and let the water, acetone, xylene get to the next layer down. And you may have to do this at every step along the way, with each of the liquids.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for soap, generally it&#039;s a bad idea because soap always leaves residue behind and it is not an inert substance. Now you can get the residue off if you know what you&#039;re doing but it&#039;s an added risk that you don&#039;t need to take.</p><p><br /></p><p>Properly cleaning coins isn&#039;t something that can be rushed. Yeah sometimes it does go quickly and easily, but other times it doesn&#039;t. It all depends what&#039;s on the coin, how thick it is, if there are multiple things, etc etc. So sometimes you simply have to settle down and take your time if you don&#039;t want to harm the coin. And time is all it&#039;s gonna cost ya, time is the price one pays for doing things correctly in all things in life.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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