How To Clean Fountain Coins

Theres gotta be someone out there, that knows about this, is there a coin cleaning place?

Once corroded, there's no way back. You can try to polish them a bit, or just blend them with the regular cash you use. You might get a foul look every now and then when using 'disgusting' coins, but they're still legal tender, so... I agree with Finn that getting some help from your bank might be a good way to go: the coins have been mutilate,d there's no way to undo, so they need to be taken care of. You can also try to put them in a coinstar or anything similar just to get rid of them and to get money back if the bank is too much work. As long as dimension and weight haven't been altered, that should just work. Just remember to check the returns tray...

The Chinese were sending in 40' shipping containers of mutilated counterfeit coins that in some cases exceeded the quantity of coins that were originally minted! That's how they got caught.

But their price for clad coinage was $20 per pound which guess what, $20 face value in clad coinage weighs a pound. They actually did pay face value (or very close to it) they just paid for it by weight instead of counting them. That's why you had to separate them by denomination and the have a different price per pound for the clad coins, the nickels and the cents.

Where did you get that dollar amount per pound?

I agree with conder101...rock tumbler with sand and dish soap I believe. Cant exactly remeber from my metal detector forum but I think thats how they clean dug clad coins. Try googling it in relation to metal detecting.

I don't know of a service that does this but a vibration or sonic cleaner helps. I have one in my lab at work that I can use when it isn't being used for cleaning machine parts. It cleans the loose gunk but if it is stuck together on a molecular level, I haven't had any good results.

I vaguely remember seeing a tv program where they used a portable cement mixer and some kind of detergent.
John1