Ordinary coins can be run – collector coins should never be cleaned.
A few questions to be sure
How to do it
- Time
- 3 min
- Water
- Lukewarm, 30–40 °C
Only circulating coins with no collector value. Do not run different metals together.
With these answers we do not recommend the ultrasonic cleaner, so there is no how-to.
Pick your cleaner to see if it fits, which setting to use and what its manual says.
Why
Manuals list coins as suitable. For collector coins, any cleaning lowers the value because the patina disappears, and ultrasonic cleaning does not remove oxide anyway.
Watch out for
- Collector value: do not clean
- Patina and oxide stay
Sources
Cleaners that fit this
Ranked by fit, never by commission.
- Vevor KZ-F2 2 L · 40 kHz · heaterSee price on Amazon
- Vevor Ultrasonic cleaner 3 L with heater and degas 3 L · 40 kHz · heaterSee price on Amazon
- Vevor TH-30AXN 6 L · 40 kHz · heaterSee price on Amazon
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