How to clean a dirty penny

A penny used to be more useful than it is today. You could buy three pieces of candy for a penny in certain areas. Today, not much is available to buy with a penny, so the result is tossing them into a jar, and saving them until they are worth dollars. Remember, though, that these methods are not good for old and high grade coin. However, maybe it’s time to dig out all those pennies, and polish them up
 

Vinegar and Salt Method

1. Get a glass of vinegar or lemon juice. Add about a teaspoon of regular table salt and mix.
2. Place your pennies in the vinegar or the lemon juice. Make sure they are not on top of eachother.
3. Leave the pennies for around five minutes in the glass of vinegar or lemon juice.

Take the pennies out, and wash them off. Let them dry for around five minutes so they will no longer be wet
 

• Do not mix coins; clean pennies ONLY without any other type of coin or the other coins will become extremely discolored.

Ketchup Method

1. Locate a cup and ketchup. This also works with Tabasco sauce.
2. Put enough ketchup in the cup to cover up the coin.
3. Put the coin in, and wait three minutes.
4. Wash pennies off in hot water
5. Coca Cola Method
6. Get a can or bottle of Coca Cola.
7. Set pennies in a dish so that they are not setting on top of each other.
8. Put just enough Coca Cola in the dish to cover the pennies.
9. Let sit for about 5-6 hours (for better results flip half way through prosses).
10. Take the pennies out and wash them off with warm or hot water.
11. Then all you have to do is cover your eyes while your pennies shine as brite as the sun.

1. Eraser Method
2. First you grab a dirty penny.
3. Next grab an eraser.
4. Rub the penny with the eraser as if you were trying to erase a mark on paper.
5. Then flip the penny and repeat steps 1-3.
6. (This will take about 10 seconds per penny.)
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8. Tips
9. Try cleaning your quarters, dimes, and nickels using these techniques.

• Adding salt to the vinegar may improve the effect.
• Another way to clean your pennies even quicker is to use a pencil eraser. The grime will erase right off. To clean further, place them in the vinegar solution.
• This also works for silver and gold coins. However, it is not recommended because it can damage the metal and decrease the value severely.

1. Warnings
2. Vinegar dissolves Zinc. If your pennies are scratched and newer than 1982, they may end up hollowed out.

• Do not get the lemon juice/salt mixture or the vinegar/salt mixture in any wounds or cuts.
• DO NOT drink

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Pennies have managed to hold onto their niche in the economy much longer than most people would have thought. There’s not much you can buy for a penny, but they still seem to accumulate around the house, in purses and in the car. In addition to being all over the place, they also tarnish very, very quickly. Fortunately, there’s a very easy way to clean them.

Put some vinegar or lemon juice in a glass or plastic container. Make sure you have enough to completely cover the pennies you want to clean.

• Step 2

  Add some salt and stir. All the salt should dissolve in the solution.

• Step 3

  Add the dirty pennies.

• Step 4

  Let the solution sit for 10 to 15 minutes. Remove the pennies and run them under fresh water.
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• Step 5

  Dry them off. Your pennies now look brand new!