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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lon Chaney, post: 1210791, member: 29844&quot;]I saw the word &quot;Tarnish&quot; in the title and knew this would be a good post <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; </p><p>Don&#039;t clean your coins, ever.&nbsp; If it&#039;s needed (which is usually is not), professionals can conserve the coin, but you&#039;re better off leaving it alone, in almost all cases.&nbsp; If you have old coppers and verdigris is beginning, that&#039;s one thing. And the key word is &#039;conservation,&#039; there.&nbsp; But it sounds like your coins are just fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, they started making ASEs in 1986.&nbsp; What coins are you referring to there?&nbsp; Peace dollars?&nbsp; Walking Lib halves?</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT:&nbsp; Also, I see one of these threads about once a week.&nbsp; There should be one sticky&#039;ed.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Beginner Guide to Cleaning&quot;</p><p>Don&#039;t clean your coins.&nbsp; 99% of the time it&#039;s unnecessary and may/will ruin the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Might save some beginner posters from asking about cleaning in a thread and being assaulted by 30 people telling them not to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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