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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1104888, member: 68&quot;]You really shouldn&#039;t wipe with something that can scratch like paper towles or rough fabric.&nbsp; Anything that you can wipe glasses with should be OK for circulated coins.&nbsp; But this applies primarily to copper and specifically to copper that isn&#039;t polished bright by circulation or some other process.&nbsp; Don&#039;t get me wrong you should be able to wipe silver as well but it&#039;s a little moe likely to show and it&#039;s less likely to help.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The point of cleaning is to make a coin look more natural; like it just came out of circulation.&nbsp; If it looks cleaned or a magnifying glass reveals hairlines then you&#039;ve damaged the coin rather than helped it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As I said if you clean them then thumbing with or without oil is often the best bet but it does require some experience.&nbsp; Don&#039;t leave behind cleaned, hairlined, or otherwise damaged coins.&nbsp; But what collector wants coins that don&#039;t look their best.&nbsp; Sure you can vow to never clean coins but then you&#039;ll miss lots of bargains because they need cleaning or someone already messed them up by bad cleaning.&nbsp; No matter how careful you are with storage you&#039;re quite likely to eventually damage coins yourself or allow improper holders or mint packaging to damage them.&nbsp; Ideally you wouldn&#039;t do this but in the real world it doesn&#039;t pay to just give them away once it&#039;s happened.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Many things that go wrong can be reversed.&nbsp; Just be sure you&#039;re not making them worse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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