These days, there's not much to buy for small change; many people put change in a piggy bank, and keep it until it is worth the money in force. Or worse, they can build up in your cupboards and start getting sticky. However, if you're looking to build bridges out of coins or play pennie ante, it's probably best if the change you're using is clean, and shiny. Note: for loose change after 1982, use method number 5. For change that has collectible value, Do not clean them!
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Method 1 of 5: Using Vinegar and Salt
Step 1. Add 5g of salt to cup of vinegar
For most loose change, one tablespoon (15 g) of salt in cup of vinegar will do the trick. Stir the mixture to dissolve the salt.
If vinegar isn't available, use lemon or lime juice instead. Copper oxide (dirt on the surface of your loose change) will dissolve in a weakly acidic liquid, and it is a mixture of the three liquids
Step 2. Place your change in a vinegar or lemon water solution
Make sure they no piled on top of each other.
Step 3. Let the loose change sit for about five minutes in a glass of vinegar or lemon water
If they're very dirty or you clean a lot of loose change, give them a few extra minutes.
For very, very dirty coins, wash them with a scrubber or toothbrush after they have been left in the cleaning solution for some time
Step 4. Take out the loose change, then rinse thoroughly
Let them dry for five minutes so they don't get wet again. They will now sparkle.
If you don't wash them thoroughly, a blue-green shimmer will appear on your loose change. That's what happens when copper, oxygen, and a mixture (known as bronze) are chlorine (from salt)
Method 2 of 5: Using Tomato Sauce/Tabasco Sauce
Step 1. Take a cup and ketchup
This method can also work with tabasco sauce. Both contain acid, as with the previous method with salt and vinegar (tomato sauce “is” salt and vinegar, to which the tomatoes are added!).
Step 2. Put enough tomato sauce in the cup to cover all the coins
Note that with this method, you may be able to smell a little ketchup on the surface of the finished typed coin. Tabasco, on the other hand, can cause yellowish stains. After all, they must be clean!
Step 3. Put a coin in it and wait for three minutes
If you have an old toothbrush (especially your roommate's), after three minutes, scrub the loose change, all the way up to the bumps.
Step 4. Wash the coins in hot water
And if you use your roommate's toothbrush, clean it again!
If the change is clean, but not shiny, mix a paste of baking soda and water and rub it over the surface of the change. Clean and tada
Method 3 of 5: Using Coca-Cola
Step 1. Prepare a bottle or can of coca-cola
He doesn't have to be a real coca-cola; Similar brands can also be used.
Step 2. Place the loose change in the plate so they don't stack on top of each other
The acid in the coca-cola should touch the surface of the dime directly.
Step 3. Place enough amount of coca-cola in the dish so that all the parts can be wetted
It doesn't take too much, so use a straw!
Step 4. Leave it for 4-5 hours
For best results, flip the coin halfway through the process. When this method works, the bottom of the coin will take longer.
Step 5. Remove the loose change from the water and rinse with warm or hot water
Method 4 of 5: Use Metal Cleaner
Step 1. Purchase a Bar Keeper's Friend product
This cleaning solution works quickly on all types of copper, such as loose change and the bottom of copper cookware. If you don't have a solution of this brand, another metal cleaner (such as the Brassso brand) will work as well.
Step 2. Wet the coin and pour in the Bar Keeper's Friend solution
Its oxalic acid will dissolve rust and dirt. Leave it for a few minutes.
Step 3. Gently scrub and rinse thoroughly
Your pennies will now sparkle to the point that you can send a signal to a plane, summon Batman, or cause temporary blindness. Very easy!
Method 5 of 5: Using a Rubber Eraser (For 1982 Pennies and After)
Step 1. Take dirty change and a rubber eraser
While this method can work on any change, it is safer than the previous methods. The acidity of Methods 1-4 will make the zinc in the penny "black".
After 1982, copper became too expensive to produce coins. Thus, zinc (a cheaper metal) finally came into use
Step 2. Scrub the loose change with a rubber eraser as if you were going to erase the writing on the paper
If you're in the mood (or if you have thousands of dimes to clean), you can attach a pencil (with an eraser) to the drill and use it. In addition, there are also objects such as electric erasers. Who knows?!
Step 3. Turn the change over and repeat the above steps as necessary
This takes about 10 seconds per coin. The downside to this method is that your hands get tired easily, and you could run out of a pencil or two! Other than that, it's a quick and easy way to clean coins.
Tips
- Try to clean up your stalemate, dime, and nickel with the techniques above.
- You can use tamarind juice instead of vinegar and lemon water.
- Use 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 pound coins with 1 kg of coins.
Warning
- If you do this to collectible edition coins, you may be able to lower the price and even damage them.
- Don't mix the coins, just clean the change without any other coins or the other coins will fade in color.
- Vinegar dissolves zinc. If your change has been scratched and is newer than the 1982 edition, it may end up with holes in it.
Vinegar dissolves zinc. If your pennies are scratched and newer than 1982, they may end hollowed out.
