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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 507687, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Dip the Morgans save Booker T - I&#039;ve never seen such&nbsp; group so opposed to doing what</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d dip those Morgans so fast it would make your head spin - the Booker I&#039;d leave alone - you&#039;all amaze me about cleaning coins sometimes and I, for one am not in denial.</p><p>Coin can be cleaned with GREAT success especially silver.</p><p>99% of all bright white Morgans have been dipped or worked on to improve and enhance their appearance.</p><p>This is common practice among 9 out of 10 collectors and dealers that I know of.</p><p>I know dealers who dip and get Morgans graded by PCGS, NGC and others often in grades of MS-64 and higher.</p><p>I have seen in person a man take off spots from a sliver eagle and you cannot spot it with a 20 power loup.</p><p>I have dipped 100&#039;s of Silver proof Franklin&#039;s, Washington&#039;s and Kennedy&#039;s and made them fabulous compared to what they looked like before.</p><p>To keep on proclaiming &quot;don&#039;t clean or conserve&quot; coins is just not telling the truth on here and at the least not fully telling the newcomer what he or she will someday learn about irregardless.</p><p><b>Now the caveat&#039;s are many, you cannot clean BU copper successfully, (for the most part) - gold usually does not need to be cleaned. People new to the hobby should never clean coins until they have looked at at least 100,000 coins and purchased $2000 worht of books and read them several times. Most AU-58 and below never benefit from cleaning but certainly may benefit from conditioning.</b></p><p><b>Coins can be ruined by cleaning also very easily - no one should attempt this until much later in their collecting career, say 5 years minimum!</b></p><p>These are common practices that the new person to the hobby needs to hear and to be told the truth about but then greatly cautioned to &quot;not attempt&quot; until one gains considerably knowledge and always practice first on &quot;non-expensive coins&quot;.</p><p>I am just not going to subscribe to this &quot;oh don&#039;t ever clean or attempt to restore&quot; any coin because that just is not the truth. People on here young or old come to learn - when you&#039;all say oh, &quot;nobody in their right minds ever attempts to clean a coin&quot; it not telling them the whole story.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ben, not afraid to have an opinion Peters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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