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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nickelsorter2017, post: 3083685, member: 87853&quot;]Well... I just want to make it clear to any other readers who aren&#039;t familiar with that grease that it isn&#039;t made to be used as a coin cleaner.</p><p>x</p><p>It also doesn&#039;t make any financial sense to spend money to clean cents which are only worth face value (1 cent) if you try to sell them to a dealer.</p><p>The third issue I see is... if a year from today you open your roll that you say grades 6.82, will you still grade it 6.82? And what exactly is the difference between 6.82 and 6.51?</p><p>x</p><p>If you enjoy what you are doing, well then, who am I to tell you not to do it?</p><p>x</p><p>But, I read your posts and I have absolutely no idea why you are doing the things that you say you are doing. Let me sum it up:</p><p>x</p><p>You are searching rolls and pulling out circulated Lincoln cents. Circulated Lincoln Memorial cents have no collector premium value to the average coin dealer. You are putting your circulated Lincoln cents in expensive coin flips that you paid more than 10 cents a piece for. For good measure, you are buying chemicals to clean your circulated Lincoln cents. The coin flips and chemicals cost you far more than you&#039;ll ever get by selling your collection back to the average coin dealer. You are using a coin grading system that you made up yourself and you freely admit that you grade your coins differently each time you look at them and your grading system isn&#039;t based upon the amount of wear that is found on the highest details of your Lincoln cents.</p><p>x</p><p>Did I misunderstand anything?</p><p>x</p><p>I, myself, am searching rolls of Jefferson nickels. I am pulling out all the pre-1974 coins and temporarily hoarding them. I do not clean any of them and am keeping them in plastic bags until I have 40 of them and then I put them back into a roll and labeling the roll with the coin date and mint mark. Some day I might be able to sell my collection of non-silver pre-1960 nickels for a small premium over face and sell the silver war nickels for the melt price. There is no need for me to grade them, but when I do, I use the standard grading system found in the red book.</p><p>x</p><p>We both are having fun. I&#039;m not trying to convince myself that if I clean my coins they will be worth more than before I cleaned them. And, I didn&#039;t spend a whole lot of money buying flips to house them.</p><p>x</p><p>Back in the 1960s and 70s it was popular to say &quot;more power to ya&quot; if it makes you happy to do something that the average person thinks is strange.</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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