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Message:: [QUOTE="jeankay, post: 335361, member: 12159"]Sometime ago posted a topic on a very large Lincoln collection a friend gave to me.The coins came in three two pound coffee cans and one antique quart canning jars. All total there were well over 12,000 coins in the containers. After sorting and checking all the coins for the good, bad and the ugly, and consequently for the errors I was left with a great number of coins I did not plan to use. In one of these pictures you can see examples of how badly corroded and useless over 2,000 of the coins were. Out of desperation I decided to find a way to clean the coins at least roll them and trade them into our bank. The bad and ugly cents were treated to a very good bath of boiling water and baking soda. Simply heat the water to a nice rolling boil and start adding cents. After all the cents are in the pan and the water is again rolling, begin adding large spoons full of baking soda. Keep adding the soda and boiling until you can see the green and icky junk in the water. Once this is done you can empty the contents into a colander and rinse thoroughly with tap water, and again thoroughly with distilled water. What came out of the mix (not exactly the same coins in each picture) but are examples of what the majority of the coins turned out to be. Grant you, these coins are 'cleaned' and not collectable as such, but you will not find a scouring mark, or loss of the natural cartwheel affect on any of the coins due to use of harsh chemicals. And, I do not recommend this if these are coins you  hope to keep and resell. And, you just might come out with some brilliantly toned coins.In this case, for the most part, it is a win-win situation.  jeankay[/QUOTE]

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