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Message:: [QUOTE="harrync, post: 3209881, member: 58588"]When I started collecting [about 65 years ago] the old timers told me to clean my silver coins with baking powder! Not as bad as the Metropolitan Museum in NYC though: they had a Pine Tree shilling [could have been an Oak or a Willow - was a long time ago] that was in with their New England silver. It looked like every time they polished the platters and pitchers in the exhibit, they polished the shilling too! Like I said, that was a long time ago too, so maybe the exhibit has changed since then. The Met is not a good place to give coins to. They once had one of the finest ancient Roman gold collections in existence. They sold it off to buy a Greek vase for about $3 million. [Rumor was that another reason to sell was that some of their big donors lusted after the coins, and this was a good excuse to de-accession them.] Turned out the vase had been looted, so the Met ended up with neither the coins or the vase.[/QUOTE]