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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 521245, member: 4920&quot;]Boss, here&#039;s that picture, again, of those two piles. Left is the water-soaked, and right is the oil-soaked. I&#039;ve been giving away my coins for many years to a group of kids, and these are all I have left from that 1000-count &quot;uncirculated bag,&quot; representing only the ones I subjected to cleaning. Every single coin in both piles looks like the representative samples (the &#039;55s and &#039;57-Ds) I posted in that other thread. I simply put these all away when I got finished, then took them out, a decade or so later. As I said in that other thread, I know all these coins had cartwheel luster, to one degree or another, when I started. Heck, that&#039;s why I bought the &quot;uncirculated bag,&quot; in the first place (figured I can&#039;t lose, they at least had that).</p><p><br /></p><p>Wish I could answer the rest of your questions relative to what I did and didn&#039;t do but just don&#039;t have the data available. Brad had a good point, because I didn&#039;t rinse the oil-soaked coins in anything but warm, running water (after having had soaked them for a day or so in water to dilute most of the oil off), so, maybe you might have different long-term results if you use a compound that can get all the oil off. I thought I had got all the oil off. Maybe I didn&#039;t. Could be whatever micro-organisms or impurities that may have been on the coins reacted with the oil that adhered to &quot;flatten&quot; those surfaces out. All in all, though, I do take this as a glimpse into what the surfaces of coins soaked long-term in oil are going to end up looking like, sooner or later. Just how I feel about that, now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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