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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7710914, member: 105098&quot;]I will say this about cleaning coins. If you look up on the Internet &quot;how to&quot; there&#039;s a ton of bad advice that will destroy a coin. The only real way to learn what to do or not do is to ask someone that won&#039;t steer you wrong, and even then you&#039;ll destroy a coin or two learning how far you can go before you&#039;ve gone to far.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes with circulation finds there no choice but to have to clean up a filthy coin of gunk. It is what it is. Best advice I can give to not do too much damage is to be mindful of pH. Not too acid, not to alkline, stick to neutral 7 pH stuff to clean with whether it&#039;s water or solvents. If it sounds acidic or caustic it probably is and those things and metals don&#039;t mix and have short windows before permanent unsavable damage occurs.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can&#039;t go too wrong on circulation found coins, they get destroyed all the time and if you are gonna figure out how to clean coins up, what works and what don&#039;t, I can&#039;t think of a better place to learn than circulation and save something that would be a lost cause.</p><p>Now if you&#039;re spending money on a nice collector coin, don&#039;t clean it without knowing exactly what you can and can&#039;t do without permanent damage, practice and learn on face value circulation stuff instead but again, it&#039;s your money and your coin..... I guess if you want to practice on expensive stuff and take losses you can do that too, it&#039;s your property. Hahaaha.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope it helped some on what to do. There&#039;s some nasty coins in circulation that if cleaned up and given a little more wear and time might go down in maximum value&nbsp; due to the additional wear, but so gunked up nobody would want it so it&#039;s valueless also. Cleaning a coin isn&#039;t so black and white as &quot;don&#039;t ever do it&quot;. Sometimes it&#039;s the only option in order to conserve it and save it from being lost forever. There&#039;s cleaning to conserve, then there&#039;s cleaning attempting to improve. Cleaning to improve value never works out, you can&#039;t clean your way to a better coin, but cleaning to conserve and save a junked coin is possible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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