Know When to Never Touch Your Coins The first rule of coin collecting is: DO NOT CLEAN YOUR COINS. This is the most important piece of advice for any collector, new or old. Serious collectors and ...

10:13, Thu, Oct 29, 2020 Updated: 10:17, Thu, Oct 29, 2020 Should you clean coins? If your coins have no collectible value and you just want to rid everyday coins of bacteria and viruses, that’s ...

A weekly column dedicated to “digging out” current information about precious metals, coins and other numismatics. A question I get quite often from my customers is “what can I use to clean my coins?” ...

A weekly column dedicated to “digging out” current information about precious metals, coins and other numismatics. To clean or not to clean my coins, that is the question. Well, the answer is quite ...

From dull relics to gleaming treasures, these Roman silver coins undergo a meticulous revival. The process shows the delicate art of balancing preservation with restoration, leaving behind coins that ...

Items are considered brass or silver-plated when a thin layer of the metal is applied to a core material—usually of a lesser value—to protect or upgrade an item. "Plating is often used to enhance the ...

For many newcomers to the world of numismatics, tarnished coins may appear ugly, dirty, and worth a whole lot of nothing. As we have all learned over the course of our lifetime, appearances are not ...