Coin Cleaning - A Successful, Yet Controversial, Example

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It's easily done with some hot water, aluminum foil and baking soda.

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Can you elaborate?

Two, of course :) I just want to play around with some older, toned pocket change to see the result.

fastback....if you've read the entire thread you'll note that your response is inaccurate. There is such a thing as non-malovent cleaning/conservation. Yes, there is. If you have no desire to test this out on your own materal, then don't....that's understandable.

The word cleaning perhaps immediately brings up a nasty connotation to many. Normally, I'd say that's a good paranoia to have. But, sometimes a proper chemical cleaning is a very good thing either to conserve a coin or to make it from something with horrid toning into something that appears to have been just issued from the Mint. And, yes, toning could be attractive, yet there truly are situations where the toning brings the saleability of a coin waaaaay down.

This whole thing about this adverse emotional reaction to the word "cleaning" reminds me of a personal analogy. As a teen and even into my adult years, I enjoyed a game called Dungeons and Dragons. My wife has a friend where early in their friendship it was mentioned that I enjoyed this game. She said...."Oh, that evil game. How can you play that? You know that it's bad for you!" I just about puked up in disgust. Obviously, somehow she got drilled into her head that role playing games were somehow bad and just repeated the drivel over again. Usually, this misinformation was propogated through religious channels.

Open your mind....it's not quite that black and white. Or in D&D terms...."good" and "evil".