Coin Collecting 101, Hobbies & Crafts

You might want to clean a coin if it looks old, dirty, is hard to read, or  corroded — but don’t! Coin experts recommend NOT cleaning coins, because doing so can significantly lower their value. If you can’t resist the urge to clean coins and you don’t care about the coin’s value… these are the most popular ways that non-collectors are cleaning coins in order to have a shiny (non valuable) coin on their hands.