Coin cleaning help please

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ausau

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Hi,
I would like to clean some of my standard $1.00 and 50cent coins as I want to keep the various designs.
I have tried cloudy ammonia and seperately bicarb and aluminium foil but seem to have made them tarnish more! I have read the cleaning round 50 cent piece articles on here but need some advice on cleaning them to a shiny condition.
Should I use TarnOff or something else?
I have a few old pennies as well, what is a good thing to clean these with?

Thanks,
Blake.
 
Argh! Those are silver specific cleaning methods. You probably can't recover them now.
 
If the mood takes me for some bizarre anti numismatic reason I use toothpaste & an eraser & lot's of elbow grease. Work's well. A numi will pick up that you cleaned the coin in about one nanosecond. Therefore, I wouldn't go cleaning anything of potential value.
 
Hi,
Thanks for the replies, they are just coins I get in change so at the moment only worth face value, just keeping them for the different designs.
I will try Hydrochloric acid and see what happens, at worst I can get rid of them at the shops!
I only butchered one 50 cent piece and about 10 $1 coins to see if it worked.

Blake.
 
AUTOSOL is a great metal cleaner /polisher u can get it at most auto stores cleans all metals with a little elbow grease i use it on my motorbikes i wouldnt use it on a nice coin but it will bring a shine back to most metals
 
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