andrewmoquin

A few days ago, I was at the bank, and the teller two 1964 Kennedy Halves, and one 1965 Half. Of course I snagged them for $1.50. However, they were quite dirty. Figuring that since they were circulation finds, I would do something to clean them up. While I know cleaning collectible coins is a big no-no, I had a little experiment. I gave the three coins an acetone bath (just normal nail polish remover) for about 10-20 mins, then wiped them off with an old cotton sock. You should have seen the brown smears on the sock when i was done, but the coins looked a heck of a lot cleaner. Since it worked so well, I was wondering what kind of damage it would do to an actual collectible coin? Any thoughts on using acetone to clean coins?