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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1366119, member: 31533&quot;]And on a side note, that I&#039;m sure some of the posters here will be upset I&#039;m saying this: And the other reason to clean a coin is to be able to get it out of your system. If you want to experiment with a totally worthless coin or two (a few) just to see what happens when you clean a coin in a certain way, that actually would be ok. But do get it out of your system quickly and do make double sure none of the coins you use will be collectible in any way, shape, or form, because you will ruin them. Once you see that that true and you have lost whatever value they could have had uncleaned, then you will be saying &quot;Never Clean Your Coins&quot; to others. It is really not the person &#039;experimenting&#039; with a coin or two to see the result that bothers me. Let them do that, and return the coin to circulation, or simply keep it as another thing gone bad, but when people come on to forums where a lot of people who may have valuable coins in their possession come to find out what to do with it, then people who post here have the responsibility not to let those people think that cleaning a coin to be shinier or easier to read is the thing to do before they go to a dealer to find out its value or sell it. It is too late when they get there and are told that they should not have cleaned the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes people assume that the posters here have the knowledge to pass on, whether that is true or not. So keep saying to not clean coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, I cleaned 4 coins, but I waited 5+ years into my current collecting timeframe to do so, and I waited until I could determine for sure that the coins I had (all silver dimes) had absolutely NO numismatic value above the silver melt. I then used a bunch of stuff that is regularly spouted as being good for cleaning coins easily on them, and I can tell you it did ruin the coins. They are now in my silver melt pile, and will (hopefully, with the rise of Silver prices) when I sell them, they will be melted for their metal content, never to grace anyone else&#039;s presence as a piece of money. And I did not touch my numismatically valued coins. I have gotten that out of my system. The only thing I want to try sometime is acetone. </p><p>&#039;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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