Is cleaning coins necessary????

[mitto]

I mean no disrespect, but why do people bother cleaning their common clad. Are there retailers or banks that will not accept them?

I live in WI, and never had an issue.

Granted I don't spend them with dirt hanging off them, but I've found rinsing them in water is enough to get them good enough.

Just curious.

And like I said, I'm not trying to sound like a smart alleck. I am just curious

 

[coinnut]

I do it for respect for those that may have a hard time seeing the coins. Elderly have a hard time telling between a dirty dime and a dirty penny. I hate getting dirty change myself. Even though there is probably little chance of catching anything from them it looks wrong to me. But that's just me, I like it clean

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

I've always cleaned the clad that I find.
Surprised myself a few times by finding coins that I missed that were keepers.
They always show and look different when there cleaned.
I guess that's would be what they call laundered money

 

[Beale]

I am not sure? I just do it as part of my hobby. I use a tumbler so it is easy. I enjoy seeing it nice and clean, and have found a wheat or 2 I missed, Beale.

 

[jim tn]

I do it out of respect for others. I don't like receiving dirty coins, so I don't try and pass mine along to others. Dirty coins are often hard for someone with poor eyesight to see what they are. I look at not cleaning clad much the same as not filling in one holes. That is my opinion, anyway. HH jim tn

 

[Roscue2]

I agree with coinnut. A couple of weeks ago at my highschool I gave a clad dime that I had found a couple of days before to the lunch lady in order to pay for a snack. It wasn't dirty or anything, but it wasn't very shiny either. The lunch lady insisted it was a penny until another student pointed out how small it is. The lunch lady got a little angry when I kept telling her it was a dime.