here is why you do not clean...

[chukers]

I cleaned a 1920D wheat penny that I found as an experiment... it was almost unreadable as it was... so I can't tell if the damage was from cleaning or if it was there already.... looks like cleaning damage...

What I did was soak it in peroxide for a few minutes and then lightly scrubbed it with peroxide and baking soda... well see for your self... my verdict...

I'm not cleaning anything I wanna keep or has any value to it at all!

Chukers

 

[Kirk PA]

I am not a fan of cleaning my coins as well. Nice presentation, chukers!

Kirk

 

[TreasurdiggrNY]

If you're talking about the pitting / little tiny dots that I see in your pic I'd say that was already there. You definitely want to be careful what you do with a more valuable find, I always err on the side of not cleaning but that's just me.

 

[chukers]

I am not a fan of cleaning my coins as well. Nice presentation, chukers!

Kirk

Thanks

 

[chukers]

If you're talking about the pitting / little tiny dots that I see in your pic I'd say that was already there. You definitely want to be careful what you do with a more valuable find, I always err on the side of not cleaning but that's just me.

Well like I said it was an experiment... I couldn't see at all what was there... so...
I'm sure its a hot topics amongst our kind...

Its like that in my other world too...

which is better for a computer to leave it on all the time or shut it down each time your finished...


Chukers

 

[Nate in Ohio]

But the more you clean, the more the patina would come off and the more red you would see and more of those dots. It happens all the time to alot of the post 1941 wheats I clean.