Cleaning Coins With An Orbital Sander

People for the Ethical Treatment of Coins (PETC); or the ASPCC. Maybe we could get some female stars to pose naked like PETA does to draw attention to these crimes against our coins.

 

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Y'all do know someone is going to come on here and take all this seriously, right?

 

I don't know about that... maybe Uncle Eddie would:


[video=youtube;YoX52GkTUD8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoX52GkTUD8[/video]

 

I could have sworn that in some other thread, maybe the rock tumbler one, that you used your neighbor's belt sander!

 

One of the people at my local pawn shop found a weird looking dime in change once. It had the wrong color and wrong design. She took it to the owner of the pawn shop, who collects, and it was a (pause for suspense)


1/10 ounce gold eagle! True story

 

I think that would make it shiny. Bob had a very shiny coin, and if you ever saw it you would even say it glows (radioactively)

 

Yeah, but the pesky government and stuff always get in the way, you have to wait weeks before you can get the coin back!

 

considering that I take up the whole last page so far, I am feeling like the late idiot trying to take in all that's been said at once.

 

don't feel bad, we won't think you're and idiot as long as you don't try any of these techniques that we showed.

 

i've heard that bombardment with anti-matter is much better.

 

well if you are screwing around with just circulated crap coinage, put the copper in vinegar for a while, take them out and they are hella shiny

 

I prefer to use the classic "run it over with an 18 wheeler" approch

 

Yeah, but antimatter is much too expensive. Plus, it is too reactive and can not be stored. But man, it makes them coins shine like a fire! I have heard sodium and water in a container makes them shine. The chemicals may be off, but I heard about the reaction because my teacher was telling us about how their chemistry teacher said constantly not to put the sodium in the sink because of the hydrogen particles in the water. The person who became the teacher and their partner went to the sink and swept the stuff in, and a fireball came up from the sink and singed their eyebrows. Sounds fun, right?

 

Who's up for a trip to Switzerland?

 

my bags are packed!

 

I thought you were going to say it was a penny.

 

PFFFTTT!! sodium? I heard that cesium and francium in water make coins sparke and shine like a fireworks display!

 

That would be the perfect climax. It was (pause for suspense) A penny! lol. However, it's possible. Imagine some random guy from the public reading this. The best idea would be to dip a copper coin in vinegar for a bit, sand it down, take it to a particle accelerate, go to a nuclear plant, drop some anti-matter on it, and then properly dispose of the bio hazard/chemical weapon. Who wants to test it?