How to Clean your Pressed Pennies
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Here it is out ultimate guide on how to clean your pressed pennies. We experiment with many different methods from simple to strange, and many others in between. Hopefully this will help you find the best method for your own collection. Keep on Pressing!
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Does it devalue or do buyers frown upon methods to have coins cleaned or to preserve? I know collectors of coins don’t like when coins are cleaned. I’m want to build my collection By purchasing and trading and and don’t want to harm a coin for someone else’s collection . Thank you
Great question. So usually I would recommend only cleaning coins that you know are going to be kept for your own collection. Many collectors that would be purchasing coins would prefer to either have the coins uncleaned, or they may have their own preferred method to clean them. If I have any coins that I know are going to be sold or traded I usually don't do anything to them and leave that up to the purchaser to decide if they want to clean them or not. I don't think it would effect the cost of the coin, but may just be more difficult to actually sell.
This video was really well done! I can see it was a lot of time and work. I think you should make your thumbnail from the scene with all the various bottles / cleaning methods lined up. Thanks for the video!
Thank you so much, and I appreciate the suggestion about the thumbnail. I try to update some of them periodically so I'll look into this one and see how it comes out!! Thanks again for your support
I just recently bought the WDW Pressed Coin/Pennies Collection Book which it came with 30 pressed pennies from Ebay. They looked kinda tarnished. I tried the methods you showed in the video to clean the pressed pennies. When that didn't work, I used the can of Comet Cleaner. I put the pressed pennies on a paper (styroform) plate and sprinkled some of the Comet Cleaner. Then I used a wet cloth to scrub the pressed pennies. After that, I rinsed the pressed pennies and wiped them with a dry cloth. The pressed pennies came out clean and shiny!!😍😍😍
That's fantastic thank you for the information. I'll definitely add Comet Cleaner to my list and may need to do an updated video with some other products!
Very informative :) I don’t clean my pennies and coins my pennies for pressing I just try and use the most shiny pennies I can
Great video 💜
Thank you so much. It was fun to work on this video. I don't clean too many as most of mine are pretty clean ahead of time as well, but every so often I get one that needs a bit of TLC.
Hi Dave, I just use very warm water and baking soda, no rubbing.. just an overnight soak. it takes off some tarnish but not too much that it affects the value of the pressed coin...
That sounds like it would be a great method. Do you need to polish them at all afterwards? I know that's the one downfall with some of the other methods I've tried, adding another step at the end to make them shiny again. But I'll definitely be give the baking soda method a try. Thank you!!
hi David....actually I'm wanting to know if you know of a way to highlight the details on the coins...sometimes they are hard to see all bright and shiny!
That's a fantastic question. I've checked with a few other collectors and they mentioned a few methods that are all fairly similar. Basically they use a water based paint, coat the entire design and then immediately wipe it off. The idea is that the paint should stick / stay along the edges of the design as you wipe away the pain from the "top" of the coin and design. It's almost like edge highlighting. Now I will admit this is not a method I have actually tried so if you do attempt it I would probably recommend using a test coin or duplicate coin just to test it out and get the process correct. If you are successful please let me know I'd love to hear all about it and it may be something I need to create a video about in the future.
You should get the pink stuff to clean them it works very well. I clean my pennies with the pink stuff before I press them and it works almost instantly, but it’s a little messy.
Fantastic thank you for letting me know. I'll definitely have to try it out. Is that the name of the product just the Pink stuff? is there a certain manufacturer so I can make sure to get the right item?
@@davidscointravels Yes the name s The Pink Stuff it’s made by Star Drops
It’s like a putty
@@evanxplayzyt8461 Perfect thank you. I'll take a look and try it out!
In a quart jar with a lid, add *500ml of water* 50ml of regular 3% peroxide* 1weight ounce of dry citrus acid powder (couple table spoons) from the canning isle.
It's known as 5-5-1 for short. It's effective, safe, cheap and it is also reusable (until the fluid gets gross)
Fantastic, thank you I'll definitely have to try this method out. I'm always on the look out for new and better options
Hi, so I have a collection of about 35 pressed pennies. Last month, I decided to clean them in vinegar, lemon juice, and baking soda. I forgot about the pennies, and they were in the solvent for over a day. The pennies are now all black. Did I just destroy my collection? Is there a way to repolish or have my pennies shine back to their original copper luster?
If they are older copper pennies that may just be some copper oxide that formed on the surface. You can try using some hydrogen peroxide and rub it on the coin with a taper towel or cloth. If that doesn't work you can try using a stronger metal cleaner like tarn-x or brasso and those should help clean that off. If the pennies are newer zinc coins that black color may no be able to come off as the zinc with an acid will cause the coin to discolor and turn black. Those the only potential option would be the metal cleaner. Good luck I hope you are able to save them.
hi! i’m starting a collection and used one of the machines that supplies the coins for you. i noticed after a few months that they’re starting to look a little dirty. may be a silly question, but would these methods work for those coins as well? i’m not sure what metal/material the supplied coins are made of
Those preloaded machines are usually filled with zinc (newer shiny) Pennies. Please do not use any of the methods that include an acid as it will react with the zinc and turn them black and ruin them. I would recommend a metal polish like tarn-x or another collector mentioned a product called “pink stuff” that I believe is available on Amazon. Those will work great on zinc Pennies to shine them back up. Hope this helps
I have large streaks on my pressed pennies that are colored greenish is this because of oxidation? If it is how do I get it off
Yes that definitely sounds like oxidation, it's usually a greenish/blue color. It sounds like your coins are primarily copper so the vinegar and salt mixture may be the easiest option to try. Be careful with using an acid if any of the coins are newer mintages that are made up of mostly zinc because an acid will turn the black and there is not good way to get rid of that, you may want to do a test on a duplicate coin just to make sure there are no unwanted results before continuing with your main collection. Or you can go right to the heavy hitter and use something like a metal polish like Tarn-X which should clean it off pretty easily and works well with both copper and zinc coins. They may then be a bit dull but can be polished up afterwards to make them look like new. Hope this helps. Let's me know how they turn out
@@davidscointravels thank a lot! I’m just starting out my collection and I’m a little clueless 😂
@@IIJakobII Always happy to help! Please feel free to let me know if you run into any other questions
@@davidscointravels I got these coins from one of the “new” machines that don’t let you put in your own cash. How can I tell if the coin is zinc or copper?
@@IIJakobII The machines that are preloaded with pennies in most cases are newer zinc pennies so to be on the safe side I would probably avoid any of the cleaning options that use an acid. The metal polish will work for really well for those
Is there any way to remove the black on zinc pennies?
Also curious 😭😭
i had someone once tell me that you should put dirty pennies in the machine because it helps with the traction or something. is this true at all or just a rumor?
That's an interesting theory, but not one I've heard before. We may need to test this out at some point. Have you tried it with any success?
I've noticed that since my last trip to Florida, many of the Disney machines have been switched out to the new ones that provide the pennies. I'm finally getting back to WDW in July and I'm wondering if I should bother to bring my old bag of pennies and quarters. I don't want to weigh myself down but I also don't want to miss any pennies from the older machines. What do you recommend?
There are only a couple machines lest on WDW property that still allow you to use your own pennies and to be honest I would anticipate those being changed out very soon. You most likely won't need to bring a bag full of pennies to press, maybe keep a dozen or so pennies available just in case you come one of these machines. Almost all of them now are the pre-loaded versions so not much need to bring you own pennies to WDW anymore unfortunately.
@@davidscointravels I wish I saw this sooner, because I went two weeks ago with a giant bag of coins I picked out. I had to exchange all my quarters for dollar bills :(
Are pressed pennies valuable? I just get them when I travel. Who would want to pay me for them?
Heresy!