Cleaning Clad Coins

[wrong way ron]

New to the hobby and thanks for all the support. Just picked up a DX-1 to go with my MXT and I love it. I can find clad a lot faster now. My question what the best way to clean these clad coins you know shine them up.

 

[trixncap]

If Coinstar rejects my clad pennys i just leave them in the reject box after about 3 runs through. I want to get one of these ultrasonic cleaners.

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[foreverRich]

It's hard to beat a tumbler. I use one from Harbor Freight and have never had any problems with turning them in to the bank. A little aquarium gravel, detergent and water does just fine. Just don't mix clad coins with pennies. Clean separately.

 

[a4wdguy]

Some time back I estimated the costs associated with cleaning coins to turn in to the bank. A tumbler, electric to run the tumbler for hours at a time, gravel, paper coin rolls, my time to sit and roll thousands of coins by hand.
Then I looked at the cost of feeding the coinstar machine. Five minutes and I had paper money totalling hundreds of dollars.

Coinstar won.

Whenever I get home from cladding, I wash my detector(s) and tools first, then I clean my goodies (including "keeper" coins) with a toothbrush and soap, clad then gets washed with toothbrush and soap. Keeper coppers get a hot peroxide soak, then carded, silver gets a bath in silver polish/cleaner, dried, then carded. Clad gets counted then sorted into jars. Jewelry gets put on the shelf or given away. Junk/trash gets thrown out.