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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2021946, member: 112&quot;]Acetone will only remove (dissolve) some things from a coin. It works well on certain types of glue, tape residue, fresh fingerprints (it will not work on fingerprints that are more than a few days old), PVC residue, some types of paint, stuff like that. </p><p><br /></p><p>But there are a great many things where acetone will have no effect at all on them. Ordinary dirt and grime for example, you&#039;ll have better luck using distilled water on that than you will with acetone. And acetone does a poor job with most types of oils. All in all there are far more things that acetone will not work on than there are things that it will work on.</p><p><br /></p><p>As has been said many times, if you are trying to properly clean a coin - in other words clean the coin without doing any harm to the coin - start with soaking the coin in distilled water. If that doesn&#039;t work then try acetone. If that doesn&#039;t work, then try xylene.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of these 3 things will remove toning. They will have no effect on toning at all. </p><p><br /></p><p>And if none of those 3 things work, then there is only 1 choice left - you will have to dip the coin in a commercial coin dip. But that can be risky for it is easy to harm the coin with a dip if you do not do it properly. So if you do not know what you are doing, then you should not use it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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