Cleaning your clad:usaflag:

[Elroy]

Hi All, Just wondering how you clean your 1cent coin, pardon me for not understanding your ways.

Today I found a US 1cent, 1995, South west of Sydney, Australia.

Thanks Heaps
Elroy

 

[deepnails]

Hi Elroy, I can't comment for others but as for me I through them in the garbage because they are heavily corroded and uncleanable, [junk].

 

[Uncle Willy]

Most of us use a coin tumbler to clean our clad and pennies.

Bill

 

[fishercz20]

hydrogen poroxcide for those stink'n Lincolns.

 

[Cupajo]

The newer pennies are made of copper clad zinc and self destruct when they get wet with salt water!!

 

[Elroy]

Thanks again all for your replies, I think I'll put it in the Tumbler.

Elroy

 

[HOWDY]

tumblers work great. as was previously said most zinc pennys that have been in the ground awhile aren't worth cleaning.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Hi Elroy.
Took some of my coins to the bank today to pay for my latest detector. Thought I has $710, but it was only $680. Half was alright, the other half I gave a quick hit with the steel wool. She made several comments as to how dirty the coins were. I almost said that' it's only filthy lucre. but I kept my trap shut as if I had to;d her why they were dirty, she would have handed it back. I'll have to figure out coin cleaning properly soon. I do have a tumbler, but haven't got the right medium to work with yet. Good luck with your zinc penny. My eldest son handed me a half dozen of them at the week end. He also showed me a couple of US quarters that he had. Hadn't seen one before. One was even a memorial!
All the best. Wish I could hunt around your parts, but it could be a long time before a get the next chance to.
Mick Evans.