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Saw this on yahoo. Advocating the cleaning of old coins. "Place the coins in Coke for 10 minutes and watch your coins shine like new." Haven't and won't try it except maybe to see if Coke would eat up a corroded zincoln.

http://vitality.news/20-cool-uses-of-coca-cola/13/

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Reminds me of the old urban legend that Coke could remove rust off of car bumpers.
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  • CharlotteDudeCharlotteDude Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It'll definitely clean the corrosion build up off of car/truck batteries.

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  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There's nothing magical about Coke ... the same will will happen with Pepsi, RC, and other variants. They are solutions of phosphoric acid with a pH range of 2-4. Nasty stuff ... tasty ... but nasty.
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    will stick with the rum and cokes image
  • chumleychumley Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭
    3 rum and cokes and the coins will start looking better without cleaning
  • david3142david3142 Posts: 3,598 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I tried this as a kid with a 1955-S cent that I just bought, but thought wasn't quite shiny enough. Bad results. Lesson learned. Don't do it with anything worth more than face value.
  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    We did this in biology circa 1979. One shinney copper Lincoln was produced.
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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: astrorat

    There's nothing magical about Coke ... the same will will happen with Pepsi, RC, and other variants. They are solutions of phosphoric acid with a pH range of 2-4. Nasty stuff ... tasty ... but nasty.




    Chemically polluted sugar water whose only redeeming value [outside of a mix for rum/whiskey, etc.] is that it keeps people working.
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,574 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WB would never invest in coins. Coke ™ is another story. image
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    At one time, Coke had the largest fleet of trucks of any place in the nation at more than 10,000. Not sure if that's still true.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I never drink it.... that or any other sugar water.... plain carbonated spring water... Poland Springs water, really good and refreshing. That and green tea (loose leaf, brewed myself).

    Now, if we wish to discuss good Cabernet Sauvignon.... well... Cheers, RickO
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I knew this girl in college - 4 or 5 Rum and Cokes would strip the clothes clean off of her.




    On another note, I knew a guy on the Highway Patrol back several years ago - he kept a few plastic 2 liter bottles of Cola in his trunk to clean the blood off the pavement after an accident.
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I thought this thread was going to be about some cokehead who got nailed while trading collectible coins for nose candy. image

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  • mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,100 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Funny, I thought it was an offer.
    mirabela
  • dlmtortsdlmtorts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭
    I'll make it an offer, coca-cola for your rare coins!
  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When I started in coins, many many MANY people used coke.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,731 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well.



    I guess I'd rather soak most of my coins in the carbonic acid they call Coke than my stomach. image
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  • Years ago I toured a Coke plant. The guide told us Pepsi was no good. First while Coke was shipping drinks to our servicemen overseas in World War II, Pepsi was gaining market share at home. Now (as I said, it was years ago) they were using high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar.
    In less than two weeks later Coca-Cola announced that they were going to use high fructose corn syrup.
  • mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Hydrant
    Originally posted by: coindeuce
    I thought this thread was going to be about some cokehead who got nailed while trading collectible coins for nose candy. image


    That was my first thought too. What's that say about us?


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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,731 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: ProofArtworkonCircs

    Years ago I toured a Coke plant. The guide told us Pepsi was no good. First while Coke was shipping drinks to our servicemen overseas in World War II, Pepsi was gaining market share at home. Now (as I said, it was years ago) they were using high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar.

    In less than two weeks later Coca-Cola announced that they were going to use high fructose corn syrup.




    Hebrew National used to advertise they didn't put insects and rat parts in their hot dogs because they answered to a higher power. Shortly after their competetors started adding sodium tripolyphosphate and water to their hot dogs a package of Hebrew National hot dogs "leaked" after they were opened. Praise the almighty buck.



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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 17,492 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would stick with the old Acetone. besides, I do admit the Coke does taste much better!image

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  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: BAJJERFAN

    At one time, Coke had the largest fleet of trucks of any place in the nation at more than 10,000. Not sure if that's still true.




    Fun facts from coke: link-a-doodle



  • Bayard1908Bayard1908 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭✭
    I clean old nickels that I find metal detecting with Aluminum Jelly. It contains the same acid as Coke. I'm almost out of Aluminum Jelly and intend to experiment with Coke once I run out.
  • kruegerkrueger Posts: 904 ✭✭✭✭
    I believe the product Nickelene is mostly Phosphoric Acid.

    Krueger
  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Hydrant

    Originally posted by: coindeuce

    I thought this thread was going to be about some cokehead who got nailed while trading collectible coins for nose candy. image




    That was my first thought too. What's that say about us?




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  • ebaybuyerebaybuyer Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭
    a lesser known fact about beverages containing phosphoric acid is the danger of kidney stones. anyone man or woman that has ever had one will agree there isn't a beverage in the world that is worth that pain, i traded my rum and coke for vodka and cranberry juice
    regardless of how many posts I have, I don't consider myself an "expert" at anything

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