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<p>[QUOTE="beef1020, post: 1676986, member: 24544"]I tend to agree, and it's 'harsh' cleaning which should be looked at in a very negative way. There are ways to clean a coin which are not harsh, those which remove foreign matter from the surface of a coin but do not alter the metal/patina, but they should only be done by people who know what they are doing.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the specific ways you listed, I would not try anything other then distilled water or xylol.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="beef1020, post: 1676986, member: 24544"]I tend to agree, and it's 'harsh' cleaning which should be looked at in a very negative way. There are ways to clean a coin which are not harsh, those which remove foreign matter from the surface of a coin but do not alter the metal/patina, but they should only be done by people who know what they are doing. As to the specific ways you listed, I would not try anything other then distilled water or xylol.[/QUOTE]
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