Steve explained that he had cleaned the coins using a wire brush attachment on his drill. He said he holds the coin with a small pair of pliers and turns on the drill and that they come pretty clean.
So like many of us who have these dirty, rusty looking clad coins hanging around, I decided to give it a try. I pulled out my DREMEL tool and put on the wire brush attachment.
The quarter I cleaned still has a brownish look to it, although not as bad as this photo. Using the wire brush did not damage the coin in any way which was something I thought would happen. Overall I thought the 'experiment' work well.
So now I will take a bunch of the cleaned coins to my local bank which has a coin cashing machine and see what happens. NOTE that if you do not have an account with the bank they will normally charge you a fee to cash in your coins. The other option is to roll them, however now I understand that some banks do not accept rolled coins.
Bob S. Webmaster
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