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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HandsomeToad, post: 534908, member: 12965&quot;]<font face="Arial"><font size="2">It&#039;s because if you leave that corrosion on there it will continue eating away at the coin. Sure, it won&#039;t look too bad by the time we croak, but what about future generations that will suffer because peeps look down on cleaning a coin? Give those coins a few hundred years and there won&#039;t be enough left to tell what it was. lil-lone variety.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">&nbsp;</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">I stop any and all corrosion on my coppers and afterwards, I soak them in baking soda, which neutralizes the acidic nature of the tomato juice and the corrosion is gone and Dellers inhibits the corrosion from returning. I want my coins to be around for generations to come, not just for me, so I take the necessary steps to make sure they will have a long life. So as far as I&#039;m concerned, it&#039;s not cleaing, it&#039;s removing corrosion that MUST be removed to prevent further harm from occurring.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">&nbsp;</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Ribbit&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">&nbsp;</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Ps: I bought a Connecticut cent that someone didn&#039;t clean after digging it up but rather, they coated it with shellac and stored it away. Prior to cleaning it, it looked almost Unc but what I didn&#039;t know is the corrosion got busy under the shellac and ate away a lot of the coin and it was still eating away at it when I got it but now it isn&#039;t. There are a lot of museums that are having the same problem with their copper coins, because they didn&#039;t clean them either. Instead, they coated them and left the corrosion on them to eat away at the coin under the coating. That&#039;s sad!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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