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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gbroke, post: 1494763, member: 22585&quot;]Oh gotchya. Is it safe to say that dipping was a common and accepted practice in coin collecting up until fairly recently?</p><p>I happened to have a book called &quot;the conserving and cleaning of coins&quot; from the 70&#039;s, from my Dad. Along with a coin cleaning kit that looks like a portable meth lab.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a side note..</p><p>Inside the book is a news paper article about cleaning coins (what practices are acceptable) my dad clipped and stuck in there. </p><p>It mentioned that King Faruk (spelling?) had a glorious coin colleciton, but liked his coins shiny. At the time of the article, it said he devalued his collection to the tune of $1 million via cleaning. Thought that was interesting. The article was not dated, but it is certainly over 40 years old.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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