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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2745490, member: 112&quot;]Your post brought to mind something that I think happens rather often. That being that when someone is a coin dealer people seem to automatically assume they (the dealer) know what they are doing. Well, sometimes that is the case, but far more often it is not. </p><p><br /></p><p>Coin dealers are no different than any other group of people, sometimes they know what they are doing and other times they don&#039;t. Or they can be quite good at one aspect of their business and yet terribly bad at another. Think of any trade you care to think of, doctors, lawyers, plumbers, electricians, painters, the list goes on and on. Some are really good at their jobs, but most are not. Some are not even adequate.</p><p><br /></p><p>So just because you see a dealer doing something or a dealer tells you this or that - that doesn&#039;t necessarily mean he&#039;s right ! And remember, he may be Aces in one aspect, say grading just as an example, but absolutely terrible in another aspect like say authentication as an example. And it doesn&#039;t much matter what you read or hear either, feedback or recommendation is only as good as the person giving it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess what I&#039;m trying to say is you need to get know coin dealers, really get to know them, before you afford them too much of a degree of trust. Just like you do with any other person in your life.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to your questions, yes tap water is bad. Yes paper towels are bad. Tap water is full of all kinds of things that may be harmful to your coins. Paper towels are abrasive, as are all paper products. Granted, if you&#039;re talking about a well circulated coin and you wash it of in tap water and blot it dry with a paper towel - you&#039;re probably not going to hurt it any more than it already has been. But, if it&#039;s a BU coin, or a coin actually worth something - well, it may not be for very long if you treat it that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yeah, I know, it&#039;s written in books and dozens of articles and on hundreds of websites to &quot;blot&quot; your coins dry after washing/rinsing them in distilled water. But that doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s a good idea. It&#039;s found in all those places because what everybody does is to merely copy what somebody else said. And that&#039;s where all the bad information found in books and articles and websites comes from. And believe me there is just a ton of bad information out there. And yet it just keeps on getting repeated over and over and over again because everybody figures - hey, they all said it, they can&#039;t all be wrong ! </p><p><br /></p><p>But yes, they can ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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