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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3070363, member: 19463&quot;]I believe the best answer for beginners is to buy coins that have a chance of being cleaned or that are attractive as they are even if this means paying more or buying fewer, more ordinary coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; I agree with lrbguy&#039;s excellent explanation of the patina being where to stop and medoraman&#039;s entire post but especially:</p><p><br /></p><p>My suggestion is to start slowly and work into cleaning rather like you were training to be a surgeon.&nbsp; Your first operations will not involve a beating heart.&nbsp; You learn from hopeless cases and don&#039;t expect to be able to return life to cadavers.&nbsp; Later, you take little steps and do simple things as you learn your limitations at that particular stage of the game.&nbsp; After considerable experience, you might decide you will be doing heart transplants or you might be like me and decide that you are not cut out to be a coin cleaner.&nbsp;&nbsp; While ruining coins in your &#039;learning to clean&#039; phase, you will learn to recognize coins someone else cleaned poorly, coins that might possibly be cleanable and the difference between the two.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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