How do I clean some old and dirty coins?
I found this article at a coin dealer’s site. Chard…an English firm. Great site! You can find them at: . http://www.24carat.co.uk/cleaningcoinsframe.html . How to Clean Coins Don’t! The best advice we can give for most people about cleaning coins is… don’t! . We see far more coins ruined by cleaning than we see coins which have been improved by cleaning. Generally speaking coins can not be improved by cleaning them. It is certainly impossible to improve their condition by doing so. We first saw this advice in 1962 edition of Seaby’s Standard Catalogue, and it still appears in the same book today, although it is now published by Spink. . If You Have To Ask – Definitely Do Not Clean Them! It’s true that if you had to ask about cleaning you
