Mr.T
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Can you not just put your clad in a vending machine and press cancel and refund?
I've used the tumbler with just Palmolive and water. The coins tend to act as a media themselves.
im in the cold part brrrrr detecting season is closing fast
Just use a coin counter ( free at some banks) - that should hid your shame of cashing in dirty money.
I would make sure theirs not grime on them, but the black/red patina is fine for a coin counter.
Same here. My bank has taken my discolored coins twice a year for three years and have never said a word and most of the coins are black. I wash the coins with water so they have no physical dirt, just discoloration. I throw the crusty zincolns away.Absolutely no need to clean clad and modern coinage before you turn it in, except to wash loose dirt off. Banks will take it and 99% will go through a coin counting machine just fine. I have been running all my coins through the machines since 2007, and the only thing that gets rejected are Canadian coins, crusty pennies and bent/damaged coins. I just toss those back in my purse and spend them.
so clean if you want to look at a shiny coin, but don't bother if you are just cashing it in.