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To Clean Or Not To Clean....your Thoughts

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 Posted 03/08/2013  2:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add falcon to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
On a more serious note on this subject though...
If you have ANY coin that was not sealed the second it was minted in an airtight capsule or compound it has been cleaned and polished many, many, many times.
Every time it was handled to buy something it was removed from one pocket and dropped in to an other.
There is no way you can ever have a coin in original condition that has not been cleaned.
I think it might also be said that the system myself and many others on here have adopted, taking mint sets apart and hermetically sealing them in 2x2's and capsule's is just as bad as cleaning .... hundreds of years from now you will have a coin without natural colour or toning.

On a less serious note .... my wife has wash LOTS of coins ... dried em to
I think the only coins ( if you can call them that ) that should be sealed and should never be handled or washed with soap and water are the trinkets or granny bate that the mint put out in huge numbers, NCLT , the only reason you don't clean them is because they aren't coins they are art.


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 Posted 03/08/2013  7:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add wandering to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Falcon, thank your frank opinion. I agree with it.
For a circulation coin, how could daily usage, put them into your pocket with your keys and other coins, handle them with anything from sweat to ketchup on hand, forget taking out from pocket for laundry, all of them are less harmful than cleaning? How could a coin survived all of them still have some value but become worthless after cleaning?
I feel it's not a logic thing talking about cleaning. It's more like a taboo or religious things -- we are not only talking about the real damage cleaning harm to a coin, we think the cleaning itself is evil and no matter what it real did on coin.
For the two coins I posted here, even now I know they are cleaned, I'll still treasure them and never be stupid enough to retone or renaturize it. The reason is simple: I didn't see really damage on it.
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