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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;masterswimmer, post: 7752261, member: 102022&quot;]My stupid move was also attributable to being young and dumb. My grandmother, who started me on coin collecting, gave me a roll of IHC&#039;s. Remember now, I was 9 y/o and this was back in 1968. Long before the information age of the www.</p><p><br /></p><p>My grandmother had a small container of copper cleaner/polish. I did the dastardly deed of taking a cloth with polish and cleaned one of the IHC. It looked good to these 9 y/o eyes. So I figured if a little cleaning was good then a lot of cleaning would be better. This dumbo took the entire roll of cents and just lined them up and stuck them into the tub of polish, left them in it overnight, and removed the pitted hunks of remaining copper the next day <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not one date on any coin was legible. Not one Indian profile was visible. Every single coin was ruined forevermore.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the record, it didn&#039;t take a future &#039;movement&#039; on the part of numismatists to shun the act of cleaning coins for me to know what I did was reprehensible. I still shudder when I think back to that 24 hour period. I&#039;ve never cleaned another coin since that cringe worthy day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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