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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 874179, member: 4552&quot;]Do a search on this forum for Acetone, coin cleaning, cleaning coins, etc. Usually you&#039;ll find that most will say not to clean coins. Yet most will also say Acetone dipping is OK since it does not hurt the coins. All true.</p><p>However, there are some things you should think about. Not cleaning a coin is for the future value of those coins. If you have no intention of selling your coins, not interested in giving them to someone, don&#039;t care about leaving them to someone, then cleaning them is just whatever <b><i>YOU</i></b> like. </p><p>Excessive cleaning and some even slight cleaning lowers the value. If you ever watch the Antique Road Show on TV you will hear them say that about&nbsp; almost anything old. If you didn&#039;t clean this it would have been worth xxxx more. </p><p>However, if it&#039;s just for yourself, it&#039;s no ones buisness what you do with your property. If you want all your coins to look new, no intension of selling, clean away, those are yours. </p><p>I&#039;m a little not to sure sometimes as to excessive protection of something I own. I always remember a car I used to have. I washed it every week. Waxed the heck out of it. Had seat covers on it so not to ruin the seats. Ever wonder why you use floor mats in your car? Protecting the floor for the future? One day I sold that car and it still looked new after several years. Someone I know said that the person that bought it totaled it out the second week he had it and it is now in a junk yard. </p><p>So we protect our coins for tomorrow? Then we pass away and someone inherits the mess and it ends up being sold at a flea market where little kids handel those coins with sticky fingers. </p><p>Regardless, I still handle my coins as if they will be mine forever. </p><p>So back to you. Dip them in Acetone, rinse with distilled water, blow dry and place in a 2x2 for tomorrow.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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