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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2278769, member: 19463&quot;]I believe most of our objections to beginners cleaning is one of doing things in order.&nbsp; Cleaning and collecting are two different hobbies.&nbsp; You would be more likely to do well and learn from the cleaning hobby if you did the buying professionally cleaned phase first.&nbsp; What you or your children will get out of $100 spent on uncleaned coins will be the experience of playing with them and a few identifiable but not particularly pretty coins.&nbsp; There will be a pile of slugs and a pile of coins worth about the same as last week&#039;s losing Lottery tickets.&nbsp; The same $100 spent on ten presentable coins that can be studied and &#039;collected&#039; is what most of us prefer.&nbsp; Unless you are quite unusual compared to the many people who have asked this question before, you will not believe what we say.&nbsp; That is why many of us who learned the hard way expect that you will take that same path.&nbsp; We wish you well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You will find people who will say I am wrong and tell how well they cleaned their coins.&nbsp; Some will even show with pride a pile of rough uglies explaining how much better they look now than before.&nbsp; Those are not the coins most of us prefer.&nbsp; You may.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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