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The reason I used dish soap was to wash off the "dip." I didn't want it sitting there destroying the coin.
Instead you probably leave residues from the soap, not much better.
And as Conder101 stated, Whatever was dissolved in the Acetone will just be redeposited right back on the coin. Whatever Acetone captures just doesn't vanish, it's now in the Acetone and as that evaporates, The STUFF is now left. It's just common CENTS you know. Rinsing with distilled water helps get rid of that STUFF.
As to dish soaps and just wash off. This has been explained many times before. No two dish soaps are the same. Some may contain acidic properties and some may contain almost anything. The formula used by manufacturers is proprietary and in most instants not easily found out. The Dish Soap you use today may be completely different than tomorrow also. It could do more damage than good to a coin. Dish Soaps are not made to clean coins, just dishes. And remember that even todays so called Silver ware is mostly Stainless Steel, not Silver so not much of a problem for Dish Soap.
And removing it with almost any kind of tap water is just as dangerous. Tap water everywhere is either full of Chlorine, Fluorine, Salts from water softeners, Iron or Lead from pipes, etc.
You really just don't know what is in what so play it safe.
And if you are having problems with house plants dying and your using tap water, could well be it is run through a water softener which leaves salts in the dirt. And that kills plants.