Our crappy coinage..........

[Tassie Daz]

I am amazed the difference in the coinage in Australia. Those beautiful gold Sovs that we all love to find seem to come out of the ground bright and shiny, (I haven't found one yet for the record) even after up to 130years in the ground. I found a 50c, 20c and a 10c Coin today and they came out brown and crappy. Seems to me to be a Sign of our times. Next they'll expect us to use plastic coinage (I think they already do.........called credit cards LOL)9

 

[KarlS]

1 and 2 dollars coins seems to be very durable. As for nickel coins, run them in tumbler with some aquarium gravel and bit of Jiff and they will come out like new.
Karl

 

[Tassie Daz]

Thanks Carl. But does that get rid of the brown, does it actually restore the silver again. It looks like the silver is gone all together.

 

[KarlS]

Yes, if you leave them in the tumbler for about 8 to 10 hours, they come out like new, we'll most of them. I'm banking around 80 dollars every fortnight in the coins. The first lot l had put in the bank was over 180 bucks of brown coins and I had to wait about four months before it was credited to my account. Now I use tumbler and the coins are accepted straight away.
Hey, don't complain about Aussie coins, some UK coins are made from iron.
Karl

 

[Coyote]

I just bought a tumbler for mine. works a treat, but I use S/S shot and a drop of detergent. About 8 - 10 hour for mine as well.

Just thought, Maybe I could drop my tumbler in overnight if I can convince the wife to have a look at the Yorke Peninsular. Wouldn't mind checking out the ATX as well.

Cliff

 

[Guest]

Cheers KarlS I love the aquarium gravel idea!

 

[KarlS]

Yeah, stainless steel shot works great,m but it cost about 50 dollars. Aquarium gravel from Kmart cost about 4 dollars and works just as good.
Karl

 

[Goldpick]

I tried to palm off a few crappy looking $2 coins the other day at the servo, the girl at the counter took mlst of them, but refused to take one as she couldn't make out the Queen's head properly - lol! The rest got bagged up and deposited at the nearest bank.

I was wandering if those new coin deposit machines would reject any worn coinage, may be better off depositing over the counter, then they can deal with them after the fact.

 

[Coyote]

Yeah, stainless steel shot works great,m but it cost about 50 dollars. Aquarium gravel from Kmart cost about 4 dollars and works just as good.
Karl

May give the gravel a go. you just use jiff? I have seen on youtube where they use grit as well. how long does the gravel last? the gravel may give a better weight to volume ratio as well.

 

[beach detecting addict]

Hi guys can you tell me where you's bought the tumblers from? I have $320 that needs cleaning
cheers Rob

 

[KarlS]

Yeah, stainless steel shot works great,m but it cost about 50 dollars. Aquarium gravel from Kmart cost about 4 dollars and works just as good.
Karl

May give the gravel a go. you just use jiff? I have seen on youtube where they use grit as well. how long does the gravel last? the gravel may give a better weight to volume ratio as well.

I leave it in for about 4 months, it will eventually become bit rounded and it takes longer to clean coins. And yes I use squirt of Jiff. It works and it is cheap. Goldies are clean in about four hours, but really chappy 20 and 50 c take about 12 hours.
Karl

 

[KarlS]

Hi guys can you tell me where you's bought the tumblers from? I have $320 that needs cleaning
cheers Rob

I got mine from aussiesapphires for $125 last year.
Karl

 

[leighroy207]

50, 20 & 10c obviously have different metal composition compared to a Gold Soverign. Gold doesn't corrode, some with high content silver, 3p, 6p etc were 97% silver behave similarly, till I think about 1945 when they went to 50% silver, they dont survive so well in the ground after this time.
Copper corrodes fairly badly of course.

 

[beach detecting addict]

Thanks Karl I really appreciate it.
cheers Rob

Hi guys can you tell me where you's bought the tumblers from? I have $320 that needs cleaning
cheers Rob

I got mine from aussiesapphires for $125 last year.
Karl

 

[Coyote]

Hi guys can you tell me where you's bought the tumblers from? I have $320 that needs cleaning
cheers Rob

Same. Aussie Sapphire

 

[dave14110]

I brought a tumble to do mine works great but time consuming. So I decided that I would take to bank & cash, coins were all cleaned with just warm water and dried. Most coin were stained green, pink or brown depending on where I found them. no goldies as they were already spent all small nickel coins & counting machine didn't reject any. But I had previously pulled about five coins out that were bent by mowers.