![]() ![]() Pennies stay in circulation for about 30 years, no wonder they get dirty.Ģ009 is pennies 100th birthday. Mix Pledge Floor Care and white vinegar into a bucket, cup, pan etc. What would be the best way to clean them without damaging the metal? They are thinner than most pennies and I don't want to ruin them.ġ. My grandmother recently passed away and when I was helping to clean out her house I found a whole box filled with pressed pennies.Ī lot of the pennies look really cool but are very dirty. If you clean a collectible penny does it reduce the value? I know that some works of art are reduced in value after they have been cleaned. I just have one question, will this cleaning method with salt and vinegar also get rid of the weird metal smell of old pennies? I have a lot of pennies lying around the house that I don't even use because they are so tarnished and bad looking. Wow, cleaning pennies is a lot easier than I expected. I can't believe some people actually use things like hot sauce and ketchup to clean pennies. Haha!Ĭan I use silver polishing solution to clean pennies? Will it damage the pennies? You can have all the bored and super-energetic kids sit down with erasers and have them erase all the pennies. Or you could do like my mom does when my six year old sister is being bad. Cleaning pennies with those extra packets of hot sauce is a great idea. If you eat at fast food restaurants that serve hot sauce packets, you'll probably end up with a bunch at home like me. I think it's the easiest method for cleaning pennies and cost free. The pennies will come out clean and shiny, almost like new! ![]() You just have to put the hot sauce in a bowl, add the pennies, keep it for a minute and then wash it in water. You don't have to keep the pennies in hot sauce for more than a minute really. November 1, No, it's not gross! It works extremely well and it's so fast. They all turned an ugly pink and faded color. A brief immersion in a 5 hydrochloric acid for neutralization should follow immediately. I am a little frustrated with this because it messed up all the pennies I used it on. Great care must be exercised here as the coins might be damaged if they are exposed to the air for a long moment while being transferred from the ammonia bath to the acid bath. I've done it before and it works, but you have to wash or clean them off after because they get a gross white dusty thing that means you have to clean them again. I'm going to try waiting 5 minutes with vinegar and salt. People have said silver and other jewelry polishes might work, but I'm here to tell you that is not how it is at all! Silver polish works sort of but not really. ![]()
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