Cleaning Coins?

me

January 18, 20070 found this helpful

I know tomato sauce is great for cleaning copper, i rub it straight from a tomato onto my pots and let it sit for a while then rinse off, as for dimes and nickels, you can try dawn power dissolver, or possibly boiling them in a pot of water and a peice of tin foil? not sure about that one, but you never know. worse case, use jewelry cleaner, yeah really. by the way i'm in yazoo county, ms hope everything is getting back to normal for you.

try the old remedy vinegar & baking soda.

Pennies in vinegar and salt work extremely well. Just put the pennies in the liquid and pour in the salt, then mix them around, and the rust or gunk that's covering it is gone! Once you've dried them off, you can use steel wool to burnish them a little, but don't rub too hard.

Liz Orr

January 18, 20070 found this helpful

My husband uses hot sauce to clean pennies. Maybe try soaking a small amount of coins in a bowl filled with the sauce before you try the whole amount.
Liz

Kathy

January 18, 20070 found this helpful

i swear when i was a kid i used to use some sort of combination of vinegar and salt to clean pennies (letting them soak in it). i've also heard some rumors that soaking the coins in coca-cola will work too, but i've yet to try that.

Bleach is an inexpensive thing to try.

You can use perioxide...we have a cleaner called H2orange...if you could get some of that it will clean anything and it disinfects. You could probably make your own..perioxide and a squeeze of fresh orange. Good luck.

I always have known that salt and lemon juice work, but know I am getting other ideas to try. :)