what's the best way to clean your coins?

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• mrpaseo Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭

  November 29, 2008 4:33PM

  Easy (See below).
  
  
  
  If you don't believe me, just ask the inventor, Mr. Brillo:
  
  
  
  We are still trying to figure out where he came up with such a good idea.
  
  Maybe his wife, Mrs. Brillo:
  
  
  
  Maybe we'll never know,
  Ray

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• DUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭

  November 29, 2008 4:38PM

  
  
  << <i>Easy (See below).
  
  
  
  If you don't believe me, just ask the inventor, Mr. Brillo:
  
  
  
  We are still trying to figure out where he came up with such a good idea.
  
  Maybe his wife, Mrs. Brillo:
  
  
  
  Maybe we'll never know,
  Ray >>
  
  
  
  

  “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."
  
  
  
  - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC

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  November 29, 2008 4:40PM

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• mrpaseo Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭

  November 29, 2008 4:57PM

  
  
  << <i>the simple yet correct answer is DON'T >>
  
  
  
  Realone is correct, I thought this questions was a joke question so I made a joke, but the bottom line is there is only one in a few hundred thousand coins that should be cleaned, the rest should be left as they are.
  
  I think the number is like 1 in 374,683.7 coins that can/should be cleaned.
  
  Did you know that 99% of all statistics are made up on the spot?
  
  Ray

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• stevek Posts: 30,139 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 29, 2008 5:02PM

  Those steelies can sometimes get downright "ugly" looking but they still shouldn't be cleaned - think of that ugliness as coin "personality" LOL

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• BlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 29, 2008 5:11PM

  Many people have stripped old "steelies" of their rust and old zinc plating, then replated them. They have little to no numismatic value, but they do look nice and "shinny" (inside joke).

  Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1

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• commoncents123 Posts: 2,648 ✭

  November 29, 2008 7:04PM

  I would think cleaning a steel cent is just fine...They're not worth anything anyways, and would look better if nice and shiny

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