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How do I clean 1000 coins $44.20

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I have a rock tumbler and need ideas how to clean all this pocket change so I can turn it in to the bank! Someone suggested an ounce bleach, one drop liquid dish soap and a hand full of pea gravel! Have'nt tried it yet. Anyone have any other suggestions? <img src="/metal/html/shrug.gif" border=0 width=37 height=15 alt=":shrug"> Ron
 
Just soak all the loose dirt off and let them have it. They don't have to be pristine unless you just want to have it that way. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)"> HH AF
 
Funny you should ask. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Just tonight I tried an experiment, I put a handful of coins in the dishwasher and they came out clean. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
Rock tumbler,cheap aquarium gravel,water,and a couple drops of cheap dish soap,tumble one to two hours. Separate the cents from the rest and do seperately.
 
... then she keeps the money, as her "tip." <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
 
On cleaning coins I found what works the best for me and the cheapest to. I use the rock tumbler with the aquarium gravel, but will seperate my copper from my clads and do each one seperate. I will use Real Lemon juice I get from Sams club as it comes in 2- 1.5 quart bottles, so you get 3 quarts for $5. I add the gravel, the coins, then add about 1/8 of a cup of the lemon juice and fill with water. The copper I will run for a hour to a hour and a half and they will look like new. The clad i find I will run for 2 or 3 hours and dump the tumbler and rinse off the coins. I will pick out the good ones and run the others again with new water and lemon juice for a hours, then unplug the tumbler and leave sit for 5 or 6 hours to let them soak, then run for another 4 or 5 hours and most will look great and some shine even better than new. When I use them people ask why they shine so much and I tell them they are recyled coins from the ground.
Here is a couple of picture of the copper and the clads so you can see how they look.
<img src="http://www.findmall.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10090/cleaned.jpg " alt="" />
<img src="http://www.findmall.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10090/cleaned2.jpg " alt="" />
The quarter had such a shine to them that the ones on the top left had a glare that makes them look yellow. The on on the top right has a slight red tint like the one on the bottom of the picture. The pennies you can tell the zinc ones as the lemon juice started to eat away on the edge and are a little differnt color on the edge.
Rick
 
I use the tumbler with aquarium gravel, with a couple of squirts of sudsing ammonia, then fill with water up to the level of the gravel. Keep the pennies separate from the clad.
When I used soap instead of ammonia, the tumbler pot would sometimes pop its lid and make a mess. Sudsing ammonia instead almost seems to create a partial vacuum inside the pot and the lid never blows.
 
I'm really impressed with your method. Sounds like a lot of work just to turn them in to the back though. I have thousands of wheaties, rolled up 20-30 years, dare I tumble them? Ron
 
It's a lot of fun going through a pile of wheaties checking for key dates and error coins <img src="/metal/html/tongue.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":b">. You may want to get a good coin book and check them close before you think about tumbling them.
HH,
Brian
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I'm not really a coin collector and find looking them up, trying to figure out condition and then finding their worth and trying to find someone to buy it "Boooooorrrrrrrringgggg!" But maybe I might get the itch this winter if I can get away from the computer! <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
On the wheaties i find I clean them a little diifernt as I am not going to spend them like I do clad. I have a vibrating rock tumbler, but use the same gravel and a product called Awsome which can be got at most dollar stores as it is a cleaner, but i am sure most any household cleaner will work. I put the pennies in and some gravel, add a little cleaner and turn it on as add some water untill the rocks will have a rolling effect. Now I will leave it work for a good 8 hours and rinse them off. Now I will dry them and change to crushed walnut shells and run dry for around 8 hours and pick ouut the pennies and rinse off the dust and run then in just plain water for a hour and rince and dry. Now they have a natual look to them and not a cleaned look like the memorial do.
The reg rock tumbler is to hard on them, but this way they will look better, but take more time and work to clean them.
Rick
 
Send the coins to me,,,, I'll figure something out.
Send them in care of steve in Indiana <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D"> <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D"> <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
 
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