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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 231784, member: 4552&quot;]AHH yes that is one of the major problems. Tell a person to dip a coin in Acetone and they run out and buy some from Walmart that has sat on the shelf for 3 or 4 years in a can. Prior to using, a small amount should be put in a glass dish and allowed to evaporate and if there is a residue, avoid using it. Ever wonder if a substance is able to disolve so many materials, what is it doing in that can to the inside walls. Regardless of what the inside of the can is coated with, eventually it will be disolved to some degree. This is only one example of materials used to clean coins. Blue Ribbon cleaners and such are frequetly used but just how? And how long was the solution left in the original container? If a coin is put into such a solution, left there for days, rubbed clean with a tooth brush, rinsed with tap water and left to dry on a kitchen stove, what would you expect? </p><p>I&#039;ve been attempting to find a good way to clean coins for well over 50 years. Yes, 50. I&#039;ve treid just about&nbsp; everything emaginable. I&#039;ve had access to many strange substances and over the years have not found any method to clean coins without some after effects that are not always pretty. Substances like Blue Ribbon leave a residue on coins that eventually will do more harm than good and breathing such chemicals will absolutely not help your lungs in to many ways. </p><p>Dealers clean coins because they know people like nice shinny, clean, pretty looking things. They will also sell such cleaners because they know people will buy them and a profit is a profit. Why should a dealer care about your coins in a year or so. They are in buisness to make money, not to make your collection worh a fortuen. The people that like nice clean coins are the same people that would buy a 500 year old table, sand it down, paint it with a Walmart Dark Green spray can of paint. Forest Green preferably. Take a 200 year old oil lamp and drill it out for a modern electric lamp. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; If you really want a nice shinny coin, I suggest concentrated Aqua Regia otherwise known as Ntrosyl Chloride.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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