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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 48602, member: 1101&quot;]If I am supposed to use Zippo Lighter Fluid on my coins, do I put coin cleaner in my Zippo?</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, I have been dipping and otherwise messing with some coins (circulation ones, euros) in the process of an ongoing defacement (counterstamping) project, and it is interesting to see some of the effects.&nbsp; Needless to say, they are quite unpredictable, and I would not want to try anything remotely like this on a collector coin, so that includes suppoosedly harmless explosive liquids.&nbsp; There is something in lighter fluid that burns, and it ain&#039;t distilled water. </p><p><br /></p><p>On further thougt, I suppose that good old rubbing alcohol also burns but dries fast and cleanly (?), but I think lighter fluid is petroleum based (I could be wrong), whereas rubbing alcohol is, well, alcohol based.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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