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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 421587, member: 112"]I will agree with you Drusus, it is a personal choice that each collector must make for themselves. However, when you make a comment like that, "and museums", you tend to make others think that because museums do it, that it is somehow the right thing to do. But what about other things that museums do ? Like every so often they take the coins that have been entrusted to their care out of their cases and using a jeweler's cloth they polish up the coins and clean them. Does this mean that this is also the right thing to do ? You see, museums have a slightly different agenda than collectors do. Museums want their coins to be bright and shiny so that when visitors come to look at the coins they will all go - Ohhhhh and Awwwww - when they see them. But then most visitors to museums know little if anything about the coins in that museum, they just marvel at how bright and shiny they are. And the museums couldn't care less about keeping the coins original or their possible future re-sale value. One should should also consider that museums tend to follow old methods, really old methods. Methods that were developed sometimes hundreds of years ago. They tend to ignore modern technology and preservation methods. So stainless, you make your own choice about how you wish to care for your coins. But before making that choice, just make sure that you explore all possibilities.[/QUOTE]