Wondering what to do with your spare change? Here's an amusing way to do a garage floor. The pattern is fun, but unless they somehow sealed the polished coins, in X years my best guess is the coins will all migrate to a single tone. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/...age-floor-33700-shiny-2p-coins-152238730.html
Lets hope they checked them for the "1983 New Pence 2p coin" 1983 and after were all struck as Two Pence but a few got through struck the same as 1981-2 as New Pence. Worth around £600.
In the small town I grew up in, there was a very old rural country store that dated back to the turn of the 20th century. The sales counter of this store had been inlaid with hundreds silver dollars. In the early 1900's, this would have not been an easy or inexpensive feat! The store burned down before my time but both my father and grandfather told me the story. And the little store was so "famous" in the area that the crossroads where it sat became known as "silver dollar" and that area is still called that to this day by some of the older locals.
Maybe the US Treasury could advertise the dollar coin by taking the billions of dollar coins they have in storage and use them to pave the mall in DC.
Talk about a messing things up, that's no way to treat your money. Did they show a photo of their work? Come on guys let us see what you did.
The article states, quote - "The mammoth project also involves soaking the coins in Coca-Cola to make them shine." Closed quote.... Is this true? Soda can shine up Copper?
It doesn't make them "shine" but it does strip off the darker oxide toning that occurs on copper coins. Typical dipped pink copper. Ugly to a collector but just the thing for the contrasting color for the floor.
Not so much soda but Coca Cola, vinegar and tomato ketchup has the same effect, if you leave it soaking long enough it will corrode and rot away. We used to shine Pennies up when i was a kid, not Cents but real copper Pennies. So if it does this to a coin imagine what happens to your guts after drinking this stuff. I`m told Coca Cola makes a good toilet bowl cleaner too.
Not really, acid content too low. (Of course you could say the same of most commercial toilet bowl cleaners too. The Works is best with 9% HCl acid, and it isn't as good as it used to be. It used to be 19% HCl. Most other commercial products are about 2%.)
