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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 1879005, member: 22004&quot;]David McCarthy shared some of his methods at the PCGS forum:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I won&#039;t reveal specifics about the full conservation process, but will say that the vast majority of the work was done with scalding hot water (which irritated my psoriasis and led to the infamous bleeding fingers) and that every coin was bathed for a substantial period of time in distilled water before being dried off. The conservation was more about procedure than chemicals. I did everything that I could to maintain the color of the coins as they were.&quot;</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>-------------------------David J. McCarthy</b><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&amp;threadid=912357&amp;STARTPAGE=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&amp;threadid=912357&amp;STARTPAGE=2" rel="nofollow">http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&amp;threadid=912357&amp;STARTPAGE=2</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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