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New Member
United States
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Does anyone know how to clean coins that came out of a fountain. I just want it to be spendable, have a ton of it. Does anyone have experience with this?
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Rest in Peace
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once corrosion has taken effect, all you can do is used an acid based cleaner, may do more damage than it's worth if purpose is dumping in circulation "pool" (pun intended!). Now if silver coins, restoration may be worthwhile. If these are copper, cupro-nickel clad coins, corroded beyond recognition, try a sonic type cleaner/compound used to polish ammo brass.  |
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Moderator
 United States
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 to CCF. Do a Google search,there are a lot of methods. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If you are talking $100+ in face, you could ask your local bank if the participate in the mutilated coin program. In theory, banks should accept mutilated coinage and ship it back to the Fed for destruction. Are they corroded together, or just in really rough shape?
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New Member
 United States
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what do you think about a algelcide?
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New Member
United States
4 Posts |
These coins came out of a fountain at the mall
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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The mutilated coin program is on hold due to abuse of the program, last I heard. Algaecide isn't going to do anything that bleach wouldn't do, which is kill organisms on the coins. It won't do anything for corrosion or mineral deposits. Edited by CelticKnot
03/05/2017 11:38 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Personally, I need clarification of what state the coins are in. Are they badly corroded, slightly corroded, covered in gunk?
Many may be spendable as is.
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New Member
United States
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They are badley corroded. I will send pics sometime today
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New Member
United States
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Theres gotta be someone out there, that knows about this, is there a coin cleaning place?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Reach out to other shopping malls, zoos, etc., to see how they handle this issue.
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Pillar of the Community
Norway
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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...
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United States
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you could ask your local bank if the participate in the mutilated coin program. Bad idea for two reasons: 1) The program is currently suspended due to Chinese sending in massive quantities of counterfeit coins for redemption. 2) The redemption program does not pay face value for the coins, just a price per pound (less than face value). My advice: roll them up and spend / deposit them. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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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.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Industrial "rock tumbler". In other words a cement mixer. Throw them in with some dry sand and let it rum for a little while. The sand will abrade off the corrosion and the surface oxidation.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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2) The redemption program does not pay face value for the coins, just a price per pound (less than face value).
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. |
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Posted 03/05/2017 4:36 pm
