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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;andrgo, post: 151978, member: 6181&quot;]Hi friends,</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been lurking for a while now and researching the best ways to clean coins. Some people say to use olive oil, Coka Cola, plain dish soap, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I decided to put everything I&#039;d ever heard of into one mixture and it&#039;s actually doing a pretty good job so far.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what I did:</p><p>First I tried finding the worst penny in my &quot;change cup&quot; (where I throw normal coins in when I get them as change from stores.) I found a 1973D penny that was pretty dark. Here it is:</p><p><img src="http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/2826/penny1mq0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Next I made &quot;the formula&quot;. Basically it is 1 part Dawn dish soap, 1 part chrome cleaner/rust remover, 1 part olive oil, 1 part citric acid, 1 part Coca Cola, and one part Goof Off. I swished the cup around to get everything together then I dropped the penny in. And oh my goodness the stuff stunk so bad I actually got a small headache, definitely not good. If you try it wear a breathing mask or something - I know I sure will next time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what the solution looked like by the way:</p><p><img src="http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/4366/penny2qk2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I let it sit for about an hour, took the coin out and here are the results (notice that I left half of the coin in the solution and half out for comparison reasons.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Voila:</p><p><img src="http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9274/penny3cp9.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now it&#039;s probably one of the nicer pennies in my &quot;change cup&quot; (or half of it at least!) <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3538/penny4gu1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone else have any solutions to polishing up coins that they&#039;d like to share?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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